#THE LINE BETWEEN VICTIM AND AGRESSOR CRIME AND CRIMINAL BECOMES BLURRED | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

hella1975 · 1 year ago

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If we formalize memory—if we allow it to be, not a picture of the past that we carry with us, but simply the way the past presses on us, the way it holds itself apart and refuses to disappear into the present—then a curse is a kind of memory, indeed an essential kind. A curse is an excess of memory, the unforgettable—and for that it doesn’t need to be remembered

Incest, Cannibalism, and the Gods: The Rise of the House of Atreus by Michael Kinnucan

#A CURSE IS A KIND OF MEMORY. A CURSE IS A KIND OF MEMORY WHICH MEANS IT IS - IN A SENSE - CHERISHED #THERE IS A HUMAN ELEMENT TO AN OTHERWISE SUPERHUMAN THING. THERE IS A SELF-DESTRUCTION TO IT #OEDIPUS WAS PUNISHED EVEN WHEN HE DIDNT REMEMBER HIS CRIME AND HE WAS PUNISHED BECAUSE HE WAS CURSED #BECAUSE THE CURSE REMEMBERED! THE CURSE IS AT ONCE A PRESERVER OF BOTH CRIME AND PUNISHMENT!#THE LINE BETWEEN VICTIM AND AGRESSOR CRIME AND CRIMINAL BECOMES BLURRED #SO THAT THYSETES' BEST REVENGE AGAINST ATREUS WAS TO IN FACT SULLY HIMSELF FURTHER #BECAUSE IT WAS A SIN SO GREAT THEY WOULD BOTH BE CURSED FOR IT AND AT ONCE IT IS NOT THEIR CURSE BUT IN FACT THEIR GRANDFATHER'S #AND FATHER'S AND SON'S AND ON AND ON THE MEMORY IS KEPT EVEN WHEN THEY FALL #A CURSE IS A KIND OF MEMORY!!!!!! HELLO!!!!!!! BANGING ON THE BARS OF MY CAGE LET ME OUTTTTTTT #words

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