http://www.pzed.ca/words what do you read, m'lord? Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:31:29 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.pzed.ca/words/bibliography/comment-page-1/#comment-612 words » Blog Archive » deep, dark secrets Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:26:44 +0000 http://www.pzed.ca/words/bibliography/#comment-612 [...] I’ve been thinking whether Fall On Your Knees has staying power as literature beyond its gripping, Cape Breton Gothic plot. In response to an email exchange with my beloved, I searched Amazon’s “Search in this Book” feature for the keywords frances cut hair. Here’s what comes up: [...] [...] I’ve been thinking whether Fall On Your Knees has staying power as literature beyond its gripping, Cape Breton Gothic plot. In response to an email exchange with my beloved, I searched Amazon’s “Search in this Book” feature for the keywords frances cut hair. Here’s what comes up: [...]

]]> http://www.pzed.ca/words/bibliography/comment-page-1/#comment-611 words » Blog Archive » convergences Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:53:14 +0000 http://www.pzed.ca/words/bibliography/#comment-611 [...] In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong discusses the opposite perspective; one that I have always held to be closer to the truth. She is discussing neolithic religions, those which developed alongside the invention of farming: The god of the dead is often also the god of the harvest, showing that life and death are inextricably entwined. You cannot have one without the other. The god who dies and comes to life again epitomizes a universal process, like the waxing and waning of the seasons. There may be new life, but the central feature of the myth and the cult of these dying vegetation gods is always the catastrophe and bloodshed, and the victory of the forces of life is never complete. (51) [...] [...] In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong discusses the opposite perspective; one that I have always held to be closer to the truth. She is discussing neolithic religions, those which developed alongside the invention of farming: The god of the dead is often also the god of the harvest, showing that life and death are inextricably entwined. You cannot have one without the other. The god who dies and comes to life again epitomizes a universal process, like the waxing and waning of the seasons. There may be new life, but the central feature of the myth and the cult of these dying vegetation gods is always the catastrophe and bloodshed, and the victory of the forces of life is never complete. (51) [...]

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