Marked: Quote
QuoteThis is the last hurdle before actual content, I promise!
The quote for today is simply contrived and useless. It lends nothing to the work except perhaps a term, and the illusion of intelligence and literacy in classical pieces: it’s a stanza from Hesiod’s Theogony. Now, I don’t know all that much about Hesiod, but I’m willing to bet that his poem was chosen for the ‘obscurity’ and mystery, since it, pardon my French, makes fuck-all sense to me. Maybe it’s to build the illusion that vampyres are real?
I’ve more or less said my piece, so have a look at it wholesale:
From Hesiod’s poem to Nyx, the Greek personification of night:
‘There also stands the gloomy house of Night;
Ghastly clouds shroud it in darkness.
Before it Atlas stands erect and on his head
And unwearying arms firmly supports the broad sky,
Where Night and Day cross a bronze threshold
And then come close and greet each other.’
(Hesiod, Theogony, 744 ff.)
(Underlining mine)
See? Fuck-all sense.
SLEDGEHAMMER OF SYMBOLOGY: 2
DA VINCI WAS AN ALIEN SPY: 1
Since Hesiod must be a vampyre to want to write a poem for Nyx, according to Cast Logic.
Next time, we’ll begin from the top, with a real chapter and everything. Expect much rage.