nous sommes hors du mondenous sommes hors du monde - LiveJournal.comheroes of the imagination- June 8, 2007 In response to the criticism of my last entry, it was not meant to be a well thought out essay as much as a rant or ramble just to get out some thoughts that had been building up in my head. With my eminent return to school in the fall I've found myself reading more and thinking more and needing to express my ideas, even if they are not yet coherent (certianly that last entry would not be a very good school paper!) nontheless, feedback of any sort is always welcome. I've found that I can...http://metatait.livejournal.com/242766.html the Vienna School vs. the Postmodern playground- June 6, 2007 Yesterday after packing the car to leave tomorrow i spent the afternoon reading Herbert Silberer's "Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts," which I picked up synchronistically at Caliban's the other day. Silberer was part of Freud and Jung's set in Vienna, and his work with alchemical symbolism predated and influenced Jung's own mounmental theories. The book is an intepretation of an old alchemical parable, called the Parabola, through Freudian dream interpretation and then...http://metatait.livejournal.com/242492.html lightning, trains, and dreams- June 1, 2007 We got to Sophie's house in a choir of lightningbolts, always my favorite force of nature, and ran inside to find her back door wide open. Thankfully nothing was missing, nor strange lurkers about the house, and we sighed, thinking it could have only been one person, her naive but well-meaning housemate, Mr. Crowe. Shortly he came in, woozy from an acupuncture session, and with no clue about the back door, but carrying a painting he'd seen at the Shadow Lounge of a silhouette image over a...http://metatait.livejournal.com/242227.html |