This is a post following off a comment made to this post here which featured Borges’ analysis of sirens in mythic lore and history in his The Book of Imaginary Beings. The post triggered my own probe into possible antecedents to the siren myth.
Borges restricts himself to providing an account of the representation and possible [...]
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Sirens
Posted in Blogged, tagged borges, freyja, inanna, lilitu, mythology, proserpine, siren, valkyrie on June 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Settling in
Posted in Blogged, tagged returning, travel on June 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of the worst things about any vacation is returning to the old routine at the end of it. I return after a week spent in Sringeri to queued downloads and half-written drafts I cannot make sense of, and a room that is slowly rising out of the initial strangeness with which I found it [...]
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