Grey eyed Athene

Terence lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 27 09:20:15 CDT 2000


Benny profane is a mock Job (who or what is the god/satan
that afflicts him?) and thus a mock Prometheus. That scene
when he lies down with a hang over, on park bench or a rock
maybe, the pigeons, he imagines, eat his liver or something.
Prometheus and Athene created Man. Athene, on the female
side, is Pallas, the girl, sister, and on the male side the
brother and childhood friend of Odysseus, surrogate father
to his son Telemachus. Odysseus, although we think of him as
a heroic warrior, only wants to stay home in the company of
women and children, he does not want to go to war, and after
it is ended, he wants to go home. The homecoming in V., will
belong to Paolo and not to Benny Profane.



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