from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 86

Ovid's Metamorphoses: the ironic, debunking deconstructionist 'anti-ideologue' ideologue....

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 85

Hosea's description of a biblical people who attempt to return to paganism....
seen as picture of Dido, a pagan who having been 'infected' with Aeneas' historical project of building Rome, cannot return to just being queen of Carthage...
a preface to the difference in perspectives between Vergil and Ovid....

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 84

Before beginning his examination of Ovid Gil quibbles with the following quote from C. S. Lewis:

“Christians and pagans have much more in common with each other than either have with a post Christian. The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as that between those who worship and those who do not. A post Christian is not a pagan. You might as well think a married woman recovers her virginity by divorce. The post Christian is cut off from the Christian past and therefore doubly cut off from the pagan past.”

(from C S Lewis' inaugural Lecture from The Chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University in 1954)

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 83

Another "Distant Mirror"...


Publius Ovidius Naso

Mentioned in this excerpt:
Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror"

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 82

This excerpt picks up on the previous post about Courtney Love with Gil asking what does it mean to say, "I want to be the one with the most cake"?

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 81

From Vergil's Aeneid to the NY Times...the metaphysics of fame


Courtney Love - "I want to be the one with the most cake."

1995 New York Times article referenced in this excerpt:
"A Singer Spurns Role of the Victim"

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 80

Good Fame and Bad Fame in Vergil...and the role of Alecto

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 79

Continuing with Vergil's

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 78

The Roman version of fame: Publius Vergilius Maro

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 77

The Roman Tradition: Julius Caesar - pontifex maximus

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 76

Transcendence: True and False...

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 75

I apologize for the non-working link to the Richard Rodriguez article in my previous post of Part 74. The link has been removed.

Melanie Phillips

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 74

This excerpt begins with the 11th cassette tape of the Famished Craving series recorded in the mid-1990's where Gil Bailie gives a review of the last part of the 10th tape. So, there will be some repetition from the previous excerpt (part 73), however he brings some new material to this discussion and introduces further examples of the western world's loss of transcendence.

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 73

Continuing with the Dali Lama on discipleship...and...Freud on the hypnotic subject.

"We have moved from the world of happy admiration into the world of unhappy envy" - Soren Kierkegarrd

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 72

In this excerpt: from the Dali Lama's view of Master & Disciple - to Freud, hysteria and hypnosis....all in 10 minutes.

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 71

From hierarchy to discipleship

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 70

Without hierarchies, whether of grace or power, we fall into the crisis of distinctions where

...each thing meets in mere opugnancy - Wm. Shakespeare, Troilius & Cressida

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 69

Hierarchy of grace or of power...

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 68

Can there be transcendence without hierarchy?