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Greek Mythology

  Taking another run at ancient Greek mythology. One person leads to another. Semele to Selenos to Ampelos to Ikarios to Ariadne. It's like Gravity's Rainbow with a new character introduce every page. Reading Athena now by O'Connor, like these graphic novels. Thinking about Athena by The Who, which isn't about Athena, it's about Theresa Russell. One of my foundational mythologies is The Razor's Edge (1994), not the book, the movie. My father says The Eternals (2021) isn't a good movie but Angelina Jolie is Athena, called Thena.  Links: TED ED on Prometheus by Iseult Gillespie.  Understanding Mythology with Joseph Campbell YouTube Books read: George O'Connor Dionysos

Favorite novels

Instinctual subjective list: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Emma by Jane Austen Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Sellout by Paul Beatty Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett The Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway Franny & Zooey by Jerome David Salinger One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Middlemarch by George Eliot Parable of Talents by Octavia Butler Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński Mobius Book by Catherine Lacey