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To: bronxville
I didn’t see the movie but love the term “Rosey fingered dawn” - it was in both the Odyssey and the Iliad so he must have like it as well.

Graves comments that, "Eos's constant love affairs with young mortals are also allegories: dawn brings midnight lovers a renewal of erotic passion ..."

And we might add, not only midnight lovers. We recognize this phenomenon not so much as a renewal of passion, but a mere inconvenience. Oh, to be young again!

8 posted on 03/20/2011 10:05:04 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

No, you wouldn’t...not really.

The “Do what thou wilt” Aleister Crowley was one very unhappy man and ended up in a boarding house crazy as a kook. He was a literal man.


13 posted on 03/20/2011 10:24:39 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: dr_lew
Graves comments that, "Eos's constant love affairs with young mortals are also allegories: dawn brings midnight lovers a renewal of erotic passion ..."

Perhaps this is where you get the Christian idea of sin incarnate: Lucifer, described as the morning star. Seeming illumination through sex or the erotic.

25 posted on 03/21/2011 5:53:49 AM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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