I'm seriously having a difficult time moving on from Aristotle. It's just so good. I seriously could go on for days. But I'm gonna try to get over it.
So let's talk about Aeneas. I was just reading through Book VI and I realized how easy this guy has it. He runs into the Sibyl and everything is a breeze from then on. She tells him up front exactly what he needs to know. Then he stands before this giant forest wondering which way to go and SHAZAM two little birdies appear to guide him along. Of course the golden branch comes of quite easily for him, meaning that he's supposed to go to see his dad in the underworld. This is not like Harry Potter trying to find the horcruxes. Aeneas knows exactly what he's looking for, why he's looking for it, where to find it and what to do with it when he finds it. It's more like Disney World than the underworld. There are little messengers everywhere telling him where to go and what to do. If only my life was that easy, my path that clear.
P.S. i commented on frostedmidnight's blog....whoever that is??? who are you?!?! because i agree with you!!! :)
P.P.S. explaining the title: when i was a little girl all my friends would come back to school after vacation and talk about how they went to Disney World. so I told my parents (who had no intention of doing so) that we should go to Disney World some time. Every day after that when we would get home from school/church/errands I would matter-of-factly state "Hey! We forgot to go to Disney World!"
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