"Thanks for reminding me about the feminine fluid and the patriarchal fear
of
being abe to know if his eldest son is indeed his eldest son onto which
shall
pass inheritance. Copyright as property and Athene's male priests to watch
over it."
I don't think the Oresteia actually covers that ground, Chris!, but,
profoundly misogynistic as the trilogy's conclusion seems to endorse it
being, and no surprise that, after all, in Athenian society then women
weren't only not allowed to act on stage, pace Elizabethan England, they
were even forbidden to attend the plays as spectators, what the plays do
manage is to dramatise that dualism you mention, unforgettably, despite the
patriarchal concerns.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: Hoaxes and Heteronymity interview
Hi Alison
Were you really at your computer at the most ungodly hour of 7:24 in the
morning???!!!! (I'm obviously not a morning person...)
Thanks for reminding me about the feminine fluid and the patriarchal fear of
being abe to know if his eldest son is indeed his eldest son onto which
shall
pass inheritance. Copyright as property and Athene's male priests to watch
over it.
Get rid of the essentialist dualism of biological male and female and it
works as a type of Gothic. (Well, the sort of Gothic I seem to have invented
for my use.) As Ulrichs would suggest: I am a third non-human sex, a vampire
who likes to suck blood and watch out... I spread AIDS.
Thanks also for the posting on the new digital copyright laws... (I should
say something more under that thread.....)
many joyous times
Chris Jones
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:24, you wrote:
> At 7:01 PM +1100 24/2/02, Chris Jones wrote:
> >A horror that the
> >dam will burst and things will flow all over the place, perhaps.
>
> A fear of flux, fluidity, shapelessness, the undefined? The muck of
> the feminine? I've just been rather involved with Aechylus's
> Oresteia recently by proxy and that (seminal) drama is strikingly
> driven by an insane logic unspeakingly predicated on such fear: the
> Eumenides ooze all over the place with unmentionable matter, they are
> unnameable, chthonic, female, illigitimate, the projection of male
> fear of unclean blood, the cuckoo in the nest... the only answer the
> clean, MOTHERLESS, cerebral goddess Athene, born of Zeus' headache
> and the enclosure of the Furies in a circumscribed grove -
>
> Best
>
> Alison
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