Friday, January 8, 2010


Reading THE CREATORS
----DANIEL J. BOORSTIN
The Birth of the Spectator: From Ritual to Drama.
Songs to Dionysus would bring back spring. Ritual was insurance against spring frost, but in every man there was a maenad, dissatisfied with stale rhythm.
Everyone was twice born, torn between wish for the familiar return and hope for the intoxicating new.

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