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Nov. 22nd, 2008 08:00 pmI'm reading the forward to "Andromanche" and there's a sentence saying that "Euripedes' has no querencia; his is a restless point of view;..." I thought it was Greek, as there are Greek words thrown everywhere in the forwards, and I go to look it up.
Not Greek. Not Latin, not German, not French. I looked it up in Wikipedia and got a golf course in Mexico. I have a large post in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
multilingual asking what it is, and I google one more time. And I find it!
It's a reference to bullfighting. I kid you not: "Most interesting can be how a matador deals with a bull that refuses to leave its querencia, that area of the ring where it feels emboldened and which it considers a safe haven." reports the Encyclopedia Britannica.
I know liberal education is a good thing, but I'm still trying to connect "thoughts about Euripides" to "bullfighting" by way of "American in 1958."
It's not a complete moment of WTF because later on he draws a comparison to the similarity of the period that Pablo Picasso had lived in and his works - "One celebrated painting shows a lady 'nude, dressed, and X-rayed' all at once; it doubles the already multiple image by posing her in front of a mirror. It was with something like this simultaneous point of view that Euripides regarded his subjects; no wonder his portraits too are constructed around an ambiguous axis." I'm assuming that the "celebrated painting" is Girl Before a Mirror (1932).
Not Greek. Not Latin, not German, not French. I looked it up in Wikipedia and got a golf course in Mexico. I have a large post in
multilingual asking what it is, and I google one more time. And I find it!It's a reference to bullfighting. I kid you not: "Most interesting can be how a matador deals with a bull that refuses to leave its querencia, that area of the ring where it feels emboldened and which it considers a safe haven." reports the Encyclopedia Britannica.
I know liberal education is a good thing, but I'm still trying to connect "thoughts about Euripides" to "bullfighting" by way of "American in 1958."
It's not a complete moment of WTF because later on he draws a comparison to the similarity of the period that Pablo Picasso had lived in and his works - "One celebrated painting shows a lady 'nude, dressed, and X-rayed' all at once; it doubles the already multiple image by posing her in front of a mirror. It was with something like this simultaneous point of view that Euripides regarded his subjects; no wonder his portraits too are constructed around an ambiguous axis." I'm assuming that the "celebrated painting" is Girl Before a Mirror (1932).
