The Rocking Chair: English contemporary literature . . .

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. . . if you accept the Harry Potter series as that, is also about the evil men and women do. Perhaps there is something inherently evil about a monarchy and it affects those who get published in that country?

THE ROCKING CHAIR is an interesting artifact, suggesting both birth & mothering, and senility & death. Is it any wonder the Scandanaian countries use the ordinary rocking chair to bring their infant mortality rates down to where they're much lower to those in the U.S.?

As a contemporary pater familias I wonder at the existence of the fates, always females. Do you think the Roman men reached for women characters to explain the return of their relatives? Or do we choose the term pater familias out of a bias which causes us to ignore the possible existence of mater familias, women, who similar to the fates, could have been the family's contact with its ancestors?

-- posted by max_read