Status Updates From Fear and Trembling

this book is refreshing me on my greek and bible lore but honestly most of the “point” is going over me. although there are some cool german words i learned like “anfechtung”

“Modern drama has given up the idea of Fate, has in dramatic respects emancipated itself; it observes, it looks in upon itself, takes fate up into its dramatic consciousness. Concealment and disclosure then become the hero’s free act, for which he is responsible.” [in context of discussing anagnorisis—oedipus discovery, luke skywalker is darth vader son ahh moment]

“…in a proposition of Pythagoras’s, that the odd numbers are more perfect than the even.” Grrrr