Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
11/11: the eumenides
We've been reading the Oresteia in my Myth course recently, and today we discussed The Eumenides. I think it's fair to say that, over the years, I've consistently been least fond of this play in the trilogy, but I think I'm having a breakthrough with it. Last night I saw the Theatre Department's production of it (with unabashedly abjectified Furies and an astoundingly androgynous Athena), and today it was a pleasure to read the text before our class meeting.
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