Realms Frequented By The Muses

Here I am! Me blogging?  Gee! Can’t believe it!  I must be nuts! You know I hate to write and would rather sing but then Polymnia seems to have taken a fancy to WWW,  that she and Urania & Clio have no doubt helped in creating.  She sees it as an appropriate medium to spread her message across and is urging us all to blog.

Of course I talked to Apollo first,  who was almost excited.  In fact,  it was Apollo,  who recommended that I should write my own blog and not just add something to the one from Terpsichore,  as I was initially planning.   I did not however fully understand her last blog. I wonder where she got all that stuff from! Clio? Looks like it! All that big talking! Of course I have been there too __ all those old places,  she is talking about.  I always thought that Terpsichore preferred dancing to writing and the company of Pan & Bacchus instead of Archimedes and Aristotle. It is new to me. She does know something though!  But she did not have to make such a big fuss about your being, maybe a bit skeptical,  in regard to our frequenting the realms depicted in your pictures. I see no hidden irony here and it is not true,  we all did not think, that you meant it so or that you were just joking. I am inclined to believe that Terpsichore just wanted to show off her knowledge,  probably because we often joke about her mental capabilities. I know you mean it and are not inclined to disprove, like some Neem Hakims and certain incurable materialistic oriented beings do,  the fact,  that we do grace most of these domains with our presence. No doubt, we do not do it as often as you probably would like to,  but that is changing and anyway we are right here. Ain't we? Cheer up!

Yes after talking to Apollo, I could hardly wait. We are all excited, except Jove! Ever since chasing away his father, he has some really weird notions about time. Imagine it, Hera (she has changed a lot by the way) was so audacious as to tell him he should learn some English. Old boy Jove, he once made fun of Ovid, would not learn Latin or for that matter read Omar Khyamm or Shakespeare in original and now she is proposing to him, that he should learn American English from the West Coast! He almost got mad! Hera didn’t care! But then it is another story that Polymnia will certainly tell you one day! Gosh, I hope he doesn’t get the wind of it. Hardly have I started blogging and already I have blurted out some mean stories about Terpsichore and Jove! Telling people tales, they have no right to know!

Are people going to read this? Wow! How absolutely gorgeous! Will they write back too? I hope not too many. I hate not to respond and I fear I won’t have much time for that.

Anyway, I was looking at some Manuscripts that you have sent to Polymnia, concerning our “banishment” from Olympia and our adventures thereafter, especially about our hopping on a truck, our ride with the truck-driver and re-landing up later at Duke Ellington’s still-only-for-white’s bar… and then recounting our older adventures in Phrygia to the people there. It is funny. I suspect Jove may not like it! Remember, his admonishment, not to frequent the tin-pan alleys, which we certainly did? Well when it is out, I will be writing more, although I would prefer to songblog rather than scribble these lines!

Meantime, I hope, that even the most skeptical visitor to your site is henceforth convinced of the undeniable fact, that we are neither ignorant nor callous of all these minor realms you are depicting, even if we do not frequent them as often as you would perhaps like us to, but the situation has changed and I trust you will find us here more often in the future!

Cheers!

Euterpe

Dear Editor,

    Now I dare not call you our scribe, because Polymnia told me that the term was antiquated and for modern times rather quaint, besides reminding one of those old-time subjects of the kings, who had often to sing their employers songs _ most of the time anyway. So we ought to call you the editor. I hope it is alright with you?

Well I have just realized that you have finished your appraisal of Rembrandt and re-edited your homage to Rembrandt, but nowhere did I see any photo-reproduction of Shah Jehan or Jehangir. You probably do know that Rembrandt has made some of their portraits too, after the drawings of certain miniature masters of India. Anyway, since Terpsichore has written so much about the Taj Mahal, and you about Rembrandt, I thought I might also contribute a bit, and here it is…..

Portrait of Shah Jehan, the builder of the Taj Mahal by Rembrandt I have already handed over the photo to Terpsichore who promised to put on her blog, where she is talking about the Mogul king, albeit in rather very unfavorable light, although she admits that the Taj Mahal is one the greatest tributes to the Muses on the planet. Now it was after all Shah Jehan who got it made. Guess I just felt miserable in not having been able to contribute here much, now I feel I have somehow remedied the fact. And guess what? The picture is already on the blog, in case you have not seen it! And now I have one more recommendation for you! There is another artwork of this universal Geist Rembrandt, that could be even more appropriate for your article on Homer and the dawn of western civilization. Long, long before you, Rembrandt had already depicted in just one small picture, what you are trying to say in many paragraphs. You know I am referring to the Portrait of Aristotle before the bust of Homer. Aristotle did stand on the shoulders of giants and the fact that Alexander is also being referred to here, says more than words could say. Alexander preferred Homer to Aristotle. Iliad was his bible and he was a hero. In this picture you have three different universes, the three great brahmanic dreams or should we say three great songs of creation, that we weaved and revealed to Homer. No doubt the Aristotelian universe is in ascendance, the Homerian forgotten, and the Alexandrian sporadically manifesting itself. But I hope for some kind of new synthesis or even singularity, that does not preclude the need of gods, mortals and other beings for a more meaningful existence, that we as special divinities are destined to help achieve. You should certainly put a photo of this great work of Rembrandt in your article. Should it surprise one, that great poets like Goethe paid tribute to Rembrandt, and Rembrandt as a universal genius probably knew as good as they, that it was poetry that played the most significant role in the formative years of great civilizations and may have dreamed up literally the so called reality of the West and the so called Maya of the East!