Octopus, oh Octopus!

[Jochen Stremmel]

»Boundaries and borders gone!«

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker

(I'd call it progress if the Plisters would stop eating octopus. Only
saying, to quote a prominent one.)



>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
>> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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>>> in the visual arts there is Hokusai's "The Dream of the Fisherman's
>>> Wife",
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>>> In Hans Biedermann's lexicon of symbols (see Knauers Lexikon der
>>> Symbole, p. 312-313) it says that the octopus did have a mythic-symbolic
>>> meaning in Greek antiquity which is still unknown. Biedermann also
>>> speculates that the octopus might have been the real world model for both,
>>> Medusa's head and the Scylla. "The dark cloud of ink worked as a symbol of
>>> the animal's affinity to higher powers." Later the octopus was, in liaison
>>> with the prawn, occasionally allocated to the astrological sign of Cancer.
>>> The ink of the octopus was used as writing ink, and its bite was considered
>>> to be toxic.
>>>
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>>> http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Hokusai_The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife.jpg&imgrefurl=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hokusai_The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife.jpg&h=467&w=670&tbnid=r-k95iOqUTHhlM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=174&docid=PczI0oAcogzWDM&usg=__9OI_jjvKccm1qvKSe8wcNfGQjKs=&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivzY6E-qHNAhVBG5oKHVmfBtAQ9QEIIDAB
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