Post by viola on Jul 19, 2018 17:20:00 GMT
"No one taught me," Arachne replied. "I learned how to do it as I sat in the sun and the shade; but no one showed me."
"But it may be that Athena, goddess of wisdom, taught you, and you did not know it."
- James Baldwin (No, not that one.)
“To give praise is not enough, let me be praised as well, and not allow my divine powers to be scorned without inflicting punishment.”
– Ovid's Minerva
The oddly nostalgic mood I got from my last post and recent dialogue brought to mind a series of books popular in my childhood, the classic Bookshelf for Boys and Girls. In my research, I found that it was much older than I had thought – first published in 1912. The story quoted above, in fact, was written in 1895 by a self-taught school superintendent-turned-editor and prolific writer of children’s literature. Its inclusion into this University Society series, published a year after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, is no doubt coincidental.
Comparison of the ancient story and its gilded-age repackaging provides another example of the unconscious, the US unconscious I discussed in my last post.