Thursday, November 25, 2010

Reading Homer with Nicholas Ray



TPF


Headlock. Body slam. Hands that do not reach back. Low dust.
Stormed by Chylabborak, driven-in by Abassee
The light above his circle hatched with spears
Odysseus to Sheepgrove:


"Get lord Idomeneo from the ridge."


Then prays:




"Brainchild Athena, Holy Girl,
As one you made
As calm and cool as water in a well.
I know that you have cares enough Other than those of me and mine.
Yet, Daughter of God, without your help
We cannot last."









Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly



Emptying her blood-red mouth set in her ice-white face


Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:


  "Kill! Kill for me!
  Better to die than to live
  without killing!" 
























Christopher Logue
All Day Permanent Red:
  The First Battle Scenes
  of Homer's Iliad, Rewritten
FS&G, 2003©

Hedi Slimane, Taner & Anna

Nicholas Ray
Rebel Without a Cause
Warner Bros, 1955©

The Flaming Lips
Fight Test
Warner Bros, 2002©


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