Word: oedipus
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Some Kind of Nut. Why, he ruminates, did his physician-father have him circumcised? "Did this represent an unconscious attack by my father on my Oedipus complex? Was he aware of the future decreased pleasure the operation would incur, and did this represent hatred of me? Did he, with my mother's consent, subconsciously want me castrated?" Philosophically, Harnes concludes that "what was done was done." Anyway, he notes, neither plastic surgery nor prosthetic technology can alter matters where he is concerned...
Antigone wants only to perform the ritual of burying her dead brother Polynices. But he has died fighting against Thebes, and the city-state's tyrant, Creon, orders that the body lie unburied. Blind as his predecessor Oedipus, Creon unknowingly flouts the gods in his overweening pride. Moreover, Antigone is Oedipus' daughter. In Greek tragedy, the mills of the gods grind from generation to generation. Antigone buries her brother at the cost of her life, and Creon forfeits the lives of his son and his wife to the gods' anger...
...Fair," Cardinal Spellman, Sherlock Holmes and Shirley Temple. The pages are liberally sprinkled with obscure metaphors and allusions to E.E. Cummings, Robert Frost, Shakespeare and Rabelais, scraps of song lyrics, even a self-composed epitaph: "here lies bob dylan demolished by Vienna politeness . . . bob dylan -killed by a discarded Oedipus...
...percussion. In 1918 came L'Histoire du Soldat, piquant, freeze-dried chamber music for seven players. Works like Pulcinella (1920) and The Fairy's Kiss (1928), based on themes of Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky, crowned Stravinsky's neoclassical shift away from the Dionysian revels of his youth. Oedipus Rex (1927) and Apollon Musagètes (1928) eloquently confirmed not only a new sobriety and austerity but also a new allegiance to the Apollonian ideal of lucidity and order...
Stravinsky's career spanned a series of distinguished creations. Petrouchka, L' Histoire du Soldat, Oedipus Rex, dozens more. But perhaps his true spirit is reflected as well in his later works, his short pieces composed when he no longer had the energy for major works. His arrangements of poems and other texts, like his setting of The Dove Descending Breaks the Air. his short fanfares, his occasional pieces and variations, all are touched by his genius. Although his health failed drastically in his later years, and most of his business was carried on by an assistant, his creative career...