My Work: Selene

I got out my Homeric Hymns book from my freshman year Classic Literature class. I was looking for the Artemis passages because something happened last night that made me feel like I should be looking to her. I didn't love the hymns about Artemis--they focused on her as a hunter more than as a woman. As I was closing the book I found the hymn for Selene and decided that was what I had been looking for. So I shall post it here with a collage I made a while ago. 

32. Hymn to Selene

Sing next of the long-winged Moon,

Muses skilled in song, melodious daughters

of Kronion Zeus. From her immortal head in heaven

rays whirl over the earth, deep beauty rises

in her brilliant light. The dusky air glows

from her golden crown, moonbeams linger,

when shining Selene bathes her lovely skin

in Ocean, slips into a dress of infinite radiance,

yokes her luminous colts, necks arching high,

and swiftly drive the glossy horses on

in evening at midmonth. Her great orbit full,

as she waxes, the rays from heaven grow brightest.

Then she is a wonder and a sign for mortals.

Once the son of Kronos mingled in love with her;

she conceived and bore Pandeia, a daughter

lovely beyond measure among deathless gods.

Hail, gracious Queen, white-armed, radiant Selene,

goddess with lush braids.

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Peter Pan Enthusiasm

I think I am what you would call a "Peter Pan enthusiast". I just realllllllly love all things Neverland. So today I went and bought another Peter Pan book, bringing my total to three. Two of them are just pretty and good for easy reading and I also have one that is the Centennial Annotated version so it has aaaawwwwesome notes about all things Peter Pan UGH I LOVE IT. I took some pictures of them being the most beautiful books in the world:

And thennnnn I have two "spin-off" kind of books that are also rad and have the prettiest artwork:

The tattoo on my ribs is a quote from Peter Pan in Scarlet that really stuck with me and I found out the author took it from a speech by JM Barrie.

So that is just my book obsession. Don't even get me started on the Disney movie or the 2003 live action film because it gets really creepy when I start talking about how much I love 13-year-old Jeremy Sumpter.

xx

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The Bone People

I just finished reading The Bone People by Keri Hulme. It is a story about three people in New Zealand and the way that they each effect the others' lives, at its most basic plot. It is a love story--not a romantic love, but a pure and true love. It was a completely entrancing book, both in the story and the style. Set close to the ocean, the book often felt tidal, as changing, as strong, as solid, as fluid as the ocean. "E nag iwi o nag iwi", as translated in the glossary of Maori words in the back of the book, "is a pun. It means, O the bones of the people (where 'bones' stands for ancestors or relations), or, O the people of the bones (i.e. the beginning people, the people who make other people)".   

Some of my favorite quotes from the book:

Also, I made a tumblr of quotes that strike me as interesting or inspiring or funny or anything as I am reading and it is located on the interwebs HERE.

Anyways, this book was magical and I would definitely recommend it. What are you reading these days?

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