XI
Benjamin has taken us for a walk and now we turn away from our stroll. Perhaps the gamblers were meant to shock us with their dubious behavior and the mechanical actions that lead us to look inward.
Looking is taking very literally and we first examine the photograph. It mimics memory except for it's refusal to drench the image with human consciousness. It is like a window into the past but one that is separate from memories that are more part of us than the actual past.
Not putting value on memory and seeing the world how we would like to see it is seen as a base affair. The camera is proposed as a device that takes this lack of concern for memory and symbolises it. It's alienation from the human mind imbues a quality of a machine on it. A painters mind on the other hand shows itself in the markings and as if he is looking at us through his work.
But we know Benjamin loves alienation so he proposes what he detests in the camera and develops a thought about vision's place in the big city. Vision is othered as a tool for vice and seeing vice and alludes to prostitutes looking for customers and police. And here we find that looking inwards is a way to bypass the sense of sight's predilection for horror by taking mind the garden of thoughts that grow from within and not from what is around us.
Her last lover swoops in as she is getting the grief of her past loves off her chest. It is the god of freedom similar to Bacchus who had just deserted her. The festival ends with their love being brought together and it seems like that means the two will be happily wed, but maybe Corona's streak of abuse will continue.
If the love is in concord then the tale suggests one honest in heart but free of expression will not find their partner in a hero or a horny drunkard but one that is dedication to expression of one's will.
Looking is taking very literally and we first examine the photograph. It mimics memory except for it's refusal to drench the image with human consciousness. It is like a window into the past but one that is separate from memories that are more part of us than the actual past.
Not putting value on memory and seeing the world how we would like to see it is seen as a base affair. The camera is proposed as a device that takes this lack of concern for memory and symbolises it. It's alienation from the human mind imbues a quality of a machine on it. A painters mind on the other hand shows itself in the markings and as if he is looking at us through his work.
But we know Benjamin loves alienation so he proposes what he detests in the camera and develops a thought about vision's place in the big city. Vision is othered as a tool for vice and seeing vice and alludes to prostitutes looking for customers and police. And here we find that looking inwards is a way to bypass the sense of sight's predilection for horror by taking mind the garden of thoughts that grow from within and not from what is around us.
March 8 Fasti Ovid
This day celebrates the transformation of Corona's love. First it is Theseus who is heroic and uses a token of her love to get out of a maze with dangerous beasts. But his love is also heroic and ends just as a heroic deed ends. The next lover she has is one of drunkeness and revelry who leaves for a woman who is exotic.Her last lover swoops in as she is getting the grief of her past loves off her chest. It is the god of freedom similar to Bacchus who had just deserted her. The festival ends with their love being brought together and it seems like that means the two will be happily wed, but maybe Corona's streak of abuse will continue.
If the love is in concord then the tale suggests one honest in heart but free of expression will not find their partner in a hero or a horny drunkard but one that is dedication to expression of one's will.
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