While watching the eagerly-awaited season 2 finale of Hannibal (one of my absolute favorite TV shows of the moment), I was happily surprised when a vocabulary lesson emerged mid-conversation between Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham. — "Do you know what an imago is, Will?" — "It's a flying insect." — "It's the last stage of a transformation." — "When you become who you will be?" — "It's also a term from the dead religion of psychoanalysis. An imago is an image of a loved one, buried in the unconscious, carried with us all our lives." — "An ideal." — "The concept of an ideal." Of course this term, in both of its definitions, has some great significance for me. It is a word I didn't even know until I stumbled across it in my dictionary browsing and knew immediately that this is the title of my chapbook . It was perfect. So when it snuck up on me again in my favorite TV show, in
Dude! This is hella cool. Am I going to find a M*A*S*H style still next time I visit? Are you Hawkeye, Trapper, or Hunnicut? Possibly Winchester? I already veto Frank, you are much too cool to be Frank.
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Nah. No still, lol. Just a few Mason jars with home-brew :P Edible/drinkable experiments are fun!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great name for the typewriter :)
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