Riders on the storm
İnto this house we're born
İnto this world we're thrown
Like a dog without bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm...
Herostratus Artemis Tapınağını neden yaktı?
Ancient writers speculated that Herostratus was motivated by a sense of injustice—not injustice that the world was overlooking his great talents but, on the contrary, injustice that the fates should have given him no talents whatsoever. It was not fair that society should grant the immortality of fame only to those who were simply lucky enough to have been born with an artist’s eye, the silver tongue of the rhetorician or the strong arm of the warrior. Psychologists’ studies suggest that this combination of a sense of injustice and inadequacy is common to those who make their names by killing the talented or destroying their works.(…)
Those who believe they have an equal right to a place in the firmament of fame but who do not have the talent to earn it are likely to become frustrated, neurotic and very, very dangerous—blazing comets crashing into the earth. We cannot all be heroes; most of us accept this fact, but some choose instead to be villains.
In front of the amazed eyes of the assembled peasants the priest held high a piece of bread and exclaimed “Hoc est corpus!”—“This is the body!”—and the bread supposedly became the flesh of Christ. In the minds of the illiterate peasants, who did not speak Latin, “Hoc est corpus!” got garbled into “Hocus-pocus!” Thus was born the powerful spell that can transform a frog into a prince and a pumpkin into a carriage.
This returns us to the question of the animal in Derrida: To what extent does Derrida want to place animals on a par with human beings, to explore an inner kinship between the two, to confer on animals the profound alteriy that Levinas hints at but never fully embraces? David Wood observes that “Derrida’s attitudes to other animals are
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Three Stages of Life
Such bacteria are an example of what l’ll call Life 1.0: life where both the hardware and software are evolved rather than designed. You and l, on the other hand, are examples of Life 2.0: life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed. You weren’t able to perform any of those tasks when you were born, so all this software got programmed into your brain later through the process we call learning.
Mrs. Sherman: The wars have melted into one,
A war was on when I was born.
Will this be on when I am done?
Little child dry your crying eyes
How can I explain the fear you feel inside
'Cause you were born into this evil world
Where man is killing man and no one knows just why
What have we become just look what we have done
All that we destroyed you must build again
When the children cry let them know we tried
'Cause when the children sing then the new
The lord of sky stood bright against the fall of twilight and spoke: Hear me, blooded heirs of those proud men who ventured into the darkness to slay those monsters and kings past. I call you to a final agon to win your own lasting glory. Nine gods have betrayed me and now demand cruel revenge. For seven days at the turn of seven years will they walk as mortal so you men, and all your heirs henceforth, may break your own fated path and turn your thread of life to immortal gold. Reveal your strength and skills and I will reward you with the mantle and the deathless power of the god whose blood stains your bold blade. For this chance I ask much. Gather at the navel of the known world and begin your hunt when the day is born. So it shall be until that final day when one remains who is remade whole.
Zeus at Olympia , translated by Kreon of the Odysseides
