He wrote that when he was 16? That explains a lot.
Usually I write by blogs before class, but this time I didn’t have the chance. I’m been slacking a bit on my readings and my posts (Damned XBOX 360, you are a plastic devil) What I was planning on doing was reading a condensed version of Ulysses just to get more than the basics that I know off hand—Something about a guy whose really good at killing people going away on a voyage and he leaves his wife Penelope whose apparently extremely hot. Ulysses is gone for a long time and when people start to think he isn’t coming back they start hanging around Penny, anyway. She makes the excuse that when she’s done making some kind of garment she’ll remarry, but what she does is she works on it all day, then unravels it at night. Then Ulysses comes back and kills everyone.
In the two stories extremely short, one pretty much postcard fiction, stories we get from Ferron we have again, Remixes. And you all know how I feel about remixes! I love remixes! Well, usually.
These two shorts seemed very cynical. I’m not big on cynical. I like to tell cynical people to go home and take their rain clouds with them. About the stories, aside from my personal preferences; the first of the two given is, I believe, a commentary on the fact that there are no longer any heroes and that the old makes way for the new because the new is more profitable. The whole thing about Penelope embroidering out of her love and loyalty for Ulysses, but to make a quick buck, and how eventually our hero Ulysses starts to embroider too has some strange implications. Strangest of all is the fact that the two, husband and wife, compete with their embroidery. Our hero is pretty much emasculated because no one remembers him or the significance of Ithaca Corner. Ulysses is just some dude that embroiders. Is there some kind of commentary about women working and how it emasculates men because now men don’t have the outlet of questing?
I really don’t have the patience to read about The Sirens and what they really were in the traditional history, so I’ll skip that and move onto Tremblay’s “The Eye of the Idol”
I’m kind of glad that I didn’t write this post until after class as I don’t think I’d have the insight that Tremblay had written this at 16. While it has complete sentences and proper spelling, it’s really nothing extraordinary. As Alissa said, “I feel like I’ve read this before… It’s like Aladdin, or something. Is that what I’m thinking of? Aladdin?” And yea, it does have that “been-there-done-that” feel. We could make the argument that Tremblay is tapping into the collective subconscious, it can be made, but I’m not going to make it. This story, The Eye of the Idol has instances of transformation, and as said in class the adventurer in this story he is made blind by his ambitions for riches.
I realize this is an extremely short post this week… but… such is life.
In the two stories extremely short, one pretty much postcard fiction, stories we get from Ferron we have again, Remixes. And you all know how I feel about remixes! I love remixes! Well, usually.
These two shorts seemed very cynical. I’m not big on cynical. I like to tell cynical people to go home and take their rain clouds with them. About the stories, aside from my personal preferences; the first of the two given is, I believe, a commentary on the fact that there are no longer any heroes and that the old makes way for the new because the new is more profitable. The whole thing about Penelope embroidering out of her love and loyalty for Ulysses, but to make a quick buck, and how eventually our hero Ulysses starts to embroider too has some strange implications. Strangest of all is the fact that the two, husband and wife, compete with their embroidery. Our hero is pretty much emasculated because no one remembers him or the significance of Ithaca Corner. Ulysses is just some dude that embroiders. Is there some kind of commentary about women working and how it emasculates men because now men don’t have the outlet of questing?
I really don’t have the patience to read about The Sirens and what they really were in the traditional history, so I’ll skip that and move onto Tremblay’s “The Eye of the Idol”
I’m kind of glad that I didn’t write this post until after class as I don’t think I’d have the insight that Tremblay had written this at 16. While it has complete sentences and proper spelling, it’s really nothing extraordinary. As Alissa said, “I feel like I’ve read this before… It’s like Aladdin, or something. Is that what I’m thinking of? Aladdin?” And yea, it does have that “been-there-done-that” feel. We could make the argument that Tremblay is tapping into the collective subconscious, it can be made, but I’m not going to make it. This story, The Eye of the Idol has instances of transformation, and as said in class the adventurer in this story he is made blind by his ambitions for riches.
I realize this is an extremely short post this week… but… such is life.
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