Hmmm. I like that theory. I'm not sure I agree 100% with it, but it makes a certain amount of sense.
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
And the only reason I'm not 100% behind it is because I think, in some ways, she's scarier than the Maiden aspect of the triple goddess. She's petty, she's the catalyst for inexplicable mysteries, she refuses to explain any of them, and she gets affronted if anyone does ask her for explanations. Which to me doesn't mesh well with any aspect of the triple goddess.
Dana,
I could not get past Chapter 1 because of the exposition issues. Let me know if it gets better?
I think the triple Goddess is very scary. Most goddesses are aspects of her. So Hera and Cybele are both aspects of the mother. Diana, Athena are aspects of the maiden. Both are scary. Diana and Actaeon, scary for sure - petty if he really stumbled on them accidentally, not so petty if was plotting rape. Athena and Arachne scary and definitely petty. Also moving beyond the Maiden, Cybele to whom men sacrificed their manhood, Hera who tricked Semele into asking Zeus to show himself in all his glory, which killed her. Not liking to be asked questions - well fits the general arrogance of Gods and Goddesses. Fundamentally I see the Triple Goddess as scary indeed - wild, primal, dangerous, capable of anything from mass slaughter and starting wars to petty and spiteful revenge on one person.
I have Glass Heart. The temptation to curl up on the couch and read all day is very strong.
Thanks, -t. I hope you like it.
Ooh! Glass Heart is out? How did I miss that! (zooms off to Amazon)
I heard about a book that I want to read, but can no longer remember the author or title. It was a non-fiction book where the author made friends with and wrote about people living in low income city neighborhoods (possibly in chicago) and how there was a whole alternate economy going on that the mainstream public doesn't know about. I am pretty sure that there was a segment about this book on This American Life, where someone had a garage sale and sold furniture with money in it?
Yes! Thank you!