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Borges plays with the discrepancy between the "real" world and the world within his fiction, and especially the nature of the "coordinations of words" that seem to bear so much, yet so little resemblance to the universe we're familiar with...
This “interpretative biography” is largely built from snippets from a score of sources, including works by art critics, intimates of Picasso (Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Fernande Olivier, etc.), and even previous biographers...
The book analyzes the "meta-myth" or "arch-myth" or archetype of the dying and resurrecting godman as it appeared all throughout the Mediterranean and Near East in antiquity. Freke and Gandy collectively refer to the godman as "Osiris-Dionysus," as these are two of the best-known examples of the myth. From there, they show the overwhelming parallels between the story of Jesus and the myth of Osiris-Dionysus, and between pagan philosophy of the Mystery religions and Gnostic Christianity...
I wouldn’t go so far as to call Josie and the Pussycats a “good” movie, but it had a number of clever bits and the kind of supporting players who can somewhat elevate an inconsequential movie.
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