Tag Archives: interpretation

A Last Laugh?… Stuart France

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* The New European, in need of a costume rifles through the storehouse of history but finds none that quite fit… * We may consider the twenty-first century (common age) with regard to these wayward predilections of style… * In … Continue reading →

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Formulas of Virtue… Stuart France

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* We have become well versed in the love of enemies… That’s the long and the short of it! * Silent and graceful, we move, as automata, in a pit of vipers… * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Future Man… Stuart France

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* The Philosopher as ‘man of the future’ is always at odds with the past. But his real adversary is the present ideal… He cannot count himself a friend of current knowledge but rather assumes the garb of ‘cantankerous fool’, … Continue reading →

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Considering White-Skunk III… Stuart France

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* That White-Skunk possess power is not in doubt. Bald-Eagle himself is wary of it. The point at issue is the uses to which that power is put. White-Skunk uses his power as a weapon to serve his own ends … Continue reading →

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Considering White-Skunk II… Stuart France

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Winged creatures are almost universally regarded as symbols of spirituality. Is there any evidence to regard them as such in this tale? Bald-Eagle has fire. Meadow-Lark has far sight. Rice-Bird can play dead. Not a bad ‘trawl’. * * … Continue reading →

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Considering White-Skunk… Stuart France

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* The Opening dynamic resembles the ‘Edenic’ in so far as a prohibition is transgressed… ‘Do not eat from that tree, for you shall surely die.’ ‘Do not cross the lodge, for you shall leave a stench.’ * …And there … Continue reading →

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The Mirror Man… Stuart France

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* If it were possible to achieve objectivity for a space… We could reflect on what it might mean for man. Yet, even the most spotless surface, would only hold its image reversed. And since we have now out grown … Continue reading →

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Time Lines III… Stuart France

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* … “And everywhere literalism rears its convoluted head.” “I’m not sure I know what you mean.” “I mean, I don’t think these people regarded those so called entities as we do.” “Superstitiously?” “Just because one creates a form to … Continue reading →

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Time Lines II… Stuart France

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* … “In later Assyrian Mythology, Anzu becomes Pazuzu.” “Am I missing something, here?” “Pazuzu is a ‘wind demon’ responsible for bringing plague and pestilence, and whatever else we may think about the notions of a demon, in that region … Continue reading →

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Time Lines… Stuart France

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* “And what have we here?” says Wen in that provocative way of hers which means she is up to something. “Anzu and Ninurta.” “Nope, not doing it for me.” “Anzu, Guardian of the Threshold, who stole the Tablets of … Continue reading →

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