Post by Salzmank on Apr 23, 2018 1:37:07 GMT
Thanks kindly, alfromni. As for #2, I don’t think the Babel story fits—it’s no single word that’s forgotten, as GKC seems to imply (I think).
For #3, Psyche’s sister convinces her that her lover, whom she has only seen in the dark, is not a god, as he claims, but rather a monster. “One night after Cupid falls asleep, Psyche carries out the plan her sisters devised: she brings out a dagger and a lamp she had hidden in the room, in order to see and kill the monster. But when the light instead reveals the most beautiful creature she has ever seen, she is so startled that she wounds herself on one of the arrows in Cupid's cast-aside quiver. Struck with a feverish passion, she spills hot oil from the lamp and wakes him. He flees, and though she tries to pursue, he flies away and leaves her on the bank of a river.” Because Cupid/Eros is the anthropomorphic personification of love, Love quite literally flies away.
For #4, I see that Helen was supposed to be carrying elecampane flowers when she was abducted—unless you meant that Helen was herself a ‘flower plucked’? Both are possible explanations, though I’ll do a little more searching; both of these would make this one a bit more indirect than the others.
Again, thanks for looking into this!
For #3, Psyche’s sister convinces her that her lover, whom she has only seen in the dark, is not a god, as he claims, but rather a monster. “One night after Cupid falls asleep, Psyche carries out the plan her sisters devised: she brings out a dagger and a lamp she had hidden in the room, in order to see and kill the monster. But when the light instead reveals the most beautiful creature she has ever seen, she is so startled that she wounds herself on one of the arrows in Cupid's cast-aside quiver. Struck with a feverish passion, she spills hot oil from the lamp and wakes him. He flees, and though she tries to pursue, he flies away and leaves her on the bank of a river.” Because Cupid/Eros is the anthropomorphic personification of love, Love quite literally flies away.
For #4, I see that Helen was supposed to be carrying elecampane flowers when she was abducted—unless you meant that Helen was herself a ‘flower plucked’? Both are possible explanations, though I’ll do a little more searching; both of these would make this one a bit more indirect than the others.
Again, thanks for looking into this!