The theme of “the turn” in my last post (“Wiki activity”) is probably due to the fact that I watched Into the Wild last night. As I’ve said before I experience this film as a philosophical tragedy – or maybe just plain old tragedy.

I keep wanting to relate this myth to Rilke’s “Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes”. Is it a different kind of tragedy – perhaps a feminine analogue? – or is it the same tragedy seen from another perspective?

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Alaska, bears, salmon, cold, white, north, hyperboreans… tragedy.

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I’ve created a new theme (the third this morning) in my wiki: North.

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I wish now that I’d taken a picture of the stained-glass salmon I gave a friend of mine. All I have is the plan I used to build it.