Minotaur

Minotaur

Minotaur II: Come back to this idea of the Minotaur here and try to get at how it works—could the Minotaurs be multiplicitous? Might the myths themselves—the collected fragments of scholarship—be the beasts we must encounter, the chance encounters, that cause that “flash of awakened consciousness” to blitz before our eyes? COME BACK TO THIS. Also, see Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood for more on the bestiality side of the Minotaur’s origins. This Minotaur idea might be a way into some of the concerns of the flaneuses. The men penetrate the labyrinth in order to murder and arise victorious. The women wish to copulate with this creature, head of an animal, body of a man…an inverse of the satyr which Henry Miller embraces so readily as a parallel self. See Borges’ story about the Minotaur that hardly defended himself in alabyrinth with no walls—the city itself. The idea of MONSTERS…. “The House of Asterion”