moon in GR

[Glenn Scheper]

> > For he is ever a sun,
> > and she a moon.
> > But to him is the winged secret flame,
> > and to her the stooping starlight.

> this is also what's behind that line in Timon of Athens:

> "The moon's an arrant thief, /
> And her pale fire she snatches from the sun"
> (Act IV, scene 3)

> maybe we could do a group read?

> etb

I filled my last pre-work morning with its read.
Chuckled a few times at the boldness of retorts.

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/timonofathens/summary.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timon_of_Athens
Scholars find much unfinished about this play including unexplained
plot developments, characters who appear unexplained and say little,
prose sections that a polished version would have in verse, and the
two epitaphs, one of which doubtless would have been cancelled in
the final version.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=MobTimo.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all
[Reads the epitaph]
    'Here lies a
wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:
Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked
caitiffs left!
Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:
Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay
not here thy gait.'

A dualism? Like olive and sword?
Do not read on;
But, having read on, ignore this sign.

Like Liber AL's injunction:
The study of this Book is forbidden.
It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading. 

Like a spontaneous wonderous vision,
that, if I dwelt on it, were an idol.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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