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Mnemonic Device

BENJAMIN GARCIA

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female IRA soldiers 

Ireland 1970’s 

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Source unknown

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One day I will find the words to describe what Anne Carson’s writing does to me.

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okay

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Aeschylus' Orestes telling Clytemnestra σύ τοι σεαυτήν, οὐκ ἐγώ, κατακτενεῖς, "you'll be your own killer, not I" -> Icke's Klytemnestra telling Orestes "if you kill me, you kill yourself"... much to think on

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AGAMEMNON AND CLYTEMNESTRA IN SENECA’S AGAMEMNON

“It’s about how when two people love one another but then, they succumb to the urge to want to kill each other … what’s love like then?” - John Darnielle on No Children

 Seneca’s tragedies are known for their complex characterizations and realistic psychological portraits, for examining the inner lives and the thought processes of the actors (or rather, victims) of said tragedy. The height of this complexity, especially considering some characterizations in his Greek sources, is Seneca’s Clytemnestra as depicted in his Agamemnon.

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from the archives of octavia butler

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This is about brothers (and sisters): but this is about brothers who are trying to resurrect their brothers, this is about brothers who mourn, this is about brothers who drag the body of their dead brother around and plead, wait for me! don't go where I can't follow!

Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Elektra (Euripedes, trans. P Vellacott) || Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Interview with HuffPost) || Antigonick (Anne Carson) || detail from Antigone au chevet de Polynice (Benjamin-Constant) || Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Life of Cato Minor (Plutarch) || Oedipus at Colonus (Sophokles, trans. R Fagles) || Life of Lucullus (Plutarch) || detail from Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures (Angelica Kauffmann) || Life of Lucullus (Plutarch) || Elektra (Sophokles, trans. Anne Carson) || Thebaid Book IX (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || detail from Orestes and Elektra || Oedipus at Colonus (Sophokles, trans. R Fagles) || Life of Crassus (Plutarch) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Kathryn Welch) || The Phoenician Women (Euripides, trans. P Burian & B Swann) || Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Kathryn Welch) || Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Nemean 10 (Pindar) || detail from Antigone Sentenced to Death by Creon (Giuseppe Diotti) || Nemean 10 (Pindar) || Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic (F K Drogula) || App. BC 5.14.143 || Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, trans. A Hecht & H H Bacon) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke)

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brother, we live in one another

an oresteia, anne carson / the world at it's beginning, dustin pearson / dead ringers / cain, saramago / the carnivorous lamb, agustin gomez-arcos / succession / a game of thrones, george rr martin / storm of roses: selected poems; “songs from an island”, ingeborg bachmann / cain, josé saramago

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The lament for Eteocles and Polynices illustrated by John Flaxman. From The Seven Chiefs Against Thebes.

With what a ruthless and destructive rage The Furies hurl their vengeful shafts around And desolate the house of Oedipus!

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Pina (2011), dir. Wim Wenders

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Gupitaro being smushed