Froyd’s Rants
brain: fried
got through Walter Burkert’s Greek Religion today…or rather, the parts that specifically deal with my dissertation. I’d read it about a year ago, and knew it was going to be exceedingly useful (even if he has some wacked out ideas about all ritual action and sacrifice operating to calm communal guilt for society…and he’s one of the main proponents of a theory which I find laughable, that of the scapegoat complex first dilineated by Rene Girard)…and I got about 11 pages of notes/quotes for the diss.
Very useful. But I know when I should stop working, and that’s when I can’t type well anymore, my fingers start tripping over themselves. So I halted, and am planning on chilling the rest of the day in my 90 degree apartment.