From pantheons to Sandman's Death: job applications for anthropomorphic personifications
There’s shoe polish on my first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, white chocolate dissolves in muffin batter resulting in divinity on a whole new level the Norse pantheon would fight gargantuan battles about and Julia Kristeva, mistress of intertextuality, would have a word to say about this last caelestic figure of speech.
Here come my thoughts behind this last string of apparently incoherent musings. As you probably know, in the Norse pantheon the enemies of the Gods are the giants, and they threaten this world. Gargantua and Pantagruel are giants as well, literary characters created by renaissance author Rabelais. Can you feel the intertextuality breathing down your neck?
If mythology still has a right to be actively present in our minds and lives, Intertextuality should be the tenth muse and she’d wear black jeans and when you’d meet her on the streets she’d smile. If Neil Gaiman’s Death wanted to do something else for a change, she could apply for the job and I’d hire her straight away. Hasn’t she proven to be more than apt at it already, after all? I cannot immediately think of a name this shapeshifting lady would have though... Possible suggestions and fun ideas are welcome!
Read away, my lovelies!
Here come my thoughts behind this last string of apparently incoherent musings. As you probably know, in the Norse pantheon the enemies of the Gods are the giants, and they threaten this world. Gargantua and Pantagruel are giants as well, literary characters created by renaissance author Rabelais. Can you feel the intertextuality breathing down your neck?
If mythology still has a right to be actively present in our minds and lives, Intertextuality should be the tenth muse and she’d wear black jeans and when you’d meet her on the streets she’d smile. If Neil Gaiman’s Death wanted to do something else for a change, she could apply for the job and I’d hire her straight away. Hasn’t she proven to be more than apt at it already, after all? I cannot immediately think of a name this shapeshifting lady would have though... Possible suggestions and fun ideas are welcome!
Read away, my lovelies!