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Redemptive power of art
Art redeems us from the horrors of the world because it transforms the world into art.

Buddha as baby, tried to avoid three things
*sickness
*old age
*death

Shakespeare was inspired by Ovid...try and think of one of his works that doesn't contain any influence from the Metamorphoses

What does Dr. Sexson say that James Joyce, Shakespeare and Ovid all have in common....
if you read all of their works it can and will transform your life.

James Joyces' Finnegan's Wake is a version of the Metamorphoses
-this story (along with many in the metamorphoses) ends in the same place that it started

James Joyce wrote a book called "the portrait of an artists as a young man" this book is said to be his autobiography. The name that he gave to the main character was : Steven Daedalus. Hmm, i think that name sounds familiar...maybe because the name Daedalus comes straight from book eight of Ovid's Metamorphoses

You don't have to understand it, you only have to be there, to be apart of it....this was said when talking about James Joyce, but really i think it can be applied to anything in life.

weaving is a metaphor for art

imagination - keeping your imagination open

Ovid changes similes to metaphors the person goes from being like a bird to being a bird

In the book of Tereus, Procne and Philomela each of these people turn into a bird. Today you can see
Philometa as a nightingale, Procne can be seen as a swallow and Tereus is a hoopoe

tragedy - what's the worse thing that you can possible imagine

Ovid is not a moralist