So, Uh. I Edited Rey And Kylo’s Throne Room Fight To Match Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song.

The Force Awakens 2015 / The Last Jedi 2017

―Matthew Woodring Stover

The Myth of Innocence

by Louise Glück

One summer she goes into the field as usual stopping for a bit at the pool where she often looks at herself, to see if she detects any changes. She sees the same person, the horrible mantle of daughterliness still clinging to her.

The sun seems, in the water, very close. That’s my uncle spying again, she thinks— everything in nature is in some way her relative. I am never alone, she thinks, turning the thought into a prayer. Then death appears, like the answer to a prayer.

No one understands anymore how beautiful he was. But Persephone remembers. Also that he embraced her, right there, with her uncle watching. She remembers sunlight flashing on his bare arms.

This is the last moment she remembers clearly. Then the dark god bore her away.

She also remembers, less clearly, the chilling insight that from this moment she couldn’t live without him again.

The girl who disappears from the pool will never return. A woman will return, looking for the girl she was.

She stands by the pool saying, from time to time, I was abducted, but it sounds wrong to her, nothing like what she felt. Then she says, I was not abducted. Then she says, I offered myself, I wanted to escape my body. Even, sometimes, I willed this. But ignorance

cannot will knowledge. Ignorance wills something imagined, which it believes exists.

All the different nouns— she says them in rotation. Death, husband, god, stranger. Everything sounds so simple, so conventional. I must have been, she thinks, a simple girl.

She can’t remember herself as that person but she keeps thinking the pool will remember and explain to her the meaning of her prayer so she can understand whether it was answered or not.

The Empire, your parents, the Resistance, the Sith, the Jedi… let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. That’s the only way to become what you are meant to be.

Ziad Nakad Haute Couture F-W 17-18

the signs as historical anecdotes

Aries: The Greek philosopher Diogenes was once captured by pirates and sold into slavery. The slave merchant asked Diogenes what trade he could be sold into (like a carpenter, scribe, etc.). Diogenes said his only skill was leading men, and said that he should be sold to a man who needed a master.

Taurus: In 207 BC, Greek Stoic philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter while watching his drunk donkey eat figs.

Gemini: In the midst of an impassioned debate on the Senate floor, a page delivers a private message to young Julius Caesar. His opponent, Cato, demands the letter be read aloud. Caesar initially refused, but after much pestering, showed the rival senator the note. It was a love letter from Cato’s half sister.

Cancer: The Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse Senator and gave it voting rights. The horse was named Incitatus and had a whole stable in marble complete with furniture and a staff of servants.

Leo: When Alexander the Great was in Corinth, all the great men of the city came to pay him tribute. When he didn’t see Diogenes among them, he went out to find him, and met the philosopher sun bathing next to the barrel he lived in. Alexander, conqueror of half the known world, greeted him and asked if there was anything he could do as a favor to the famous thinker. Diogenes answered, “Yes, move over a little. You’re standing in my sun.”

Virgo: Maria Fedorovna, Empress of Russia and wife of Tsar Alexander III, was known for her charitable works. In fact, she once saved a condemned man from exile in Siberia by changing a single comma in the warrant signed by her husband. Instead of reading: “Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia,” she changed the document to read: “Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.” The man was thus saved and released.

Libra:  The Greek tragedian Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a turtle on his head, after mistaking it for a rock on which to crack open the shell.

Scorpio: Pope Stephen VI didn’t like his predecessor, Pope Formosus, and therefore ordered his remains to be dug up and put on trial. At the infamous “Cadaver Synod” of 897, Pope Stephen VI cross-examined the corpse, declared it guilty, and had it mutilated and thrown in the Tiber River as punishment.

Sagittarius: Hippocleides of Athens got so drunk at a betrothal dinner party he jumped on the dinner table and started dancing like a madman. His prospective father-in-law Cleisthenes of Sicyon told him “Oh son of Tysander, you have just danced away your marriage.” Hippocleides responded with “Hippocleides doesn’t care”

Capricorn: The Persian king Xerxes sentenced the sea to 300 lashes for destroying two of his army’s bridges.

Aquarius: Virginia Woolf and her writer friends successfully tricked the Royal Navy into showing them their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, by pretending to be Abyssinian princes, dressing up with fake beards, skin darkeners and turbans. (Here’s a picture, Virginia to the far left)

Pisces: In 1518, a “dancing plague” struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. There was no music nor any apparent reason behind it. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion.

Noorhelm + hugs