Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
dir. Tobe Hooper
Penelope
Plaque, Period Classical Greek ca.460/450 BC., terracotta 18.7x27.8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Inv. 30.11.9
After years of trial and adventure -recounted in Homer’s Odyssey- Odysseus returned to his native Ithaka. He found his wife, Penelope, harassed by suitors who had taken over his palace and were consuming his wealth. Odysseus made his entrance looking like a beggar. Here he is shown approaching the disconsolate Penelope, as the faithful members of his household -his father, Laertes, his son, Telemachos, and the swineherd Eumaios- look on.
“By the light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written in a book. It was an old account book, greatly worn; and the writing was not, apparently, very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame of the candle to get a stronger light upon it. The shadow of the book would then throw into obscurity a half of the room, darkening a number of faces and figures; for besides the reader, eight other men were present. Seven of them sat against the rough log walls, silent and motionless, and, the room being small, not very far from the table. By extending an arm any one of them could have touched the eighth man, who lay on the table, face upward, partly covered by a sheet, his arms at his sides. He was dead.”
Take it from the biochemist who used to work with vaccines:
1. Some vaccines will keep you from getting sick: measles, mumps, rubella, etc.
2. Some vaccines won’t keep you from getting sick, but it will keep you from dying: COVID, flu, etc.
3. Some people can’t get vaccines, or vaccines don’t work for them. They are a tiny percentage of the population.
4. Side effects from vaccines are normal.
5. mRNA vaccine technology has been around for 20 years. It’s not *that* new.
6. Vaccine cards have been around for a very long time. You’d know that if you traveled to certain countries, or looked it up on Google.
7. I’m getting tired of saying all this stuff to people. At this point, I don’t give a flying fuck what you believe, grow the fuck up and just get your fucking vaccine and/or booster shot. But if you insist on being a selfish asshole, stay the fuck away from me.
Charon
Charon is a figure from Greek mythology where he is the boatman who ferries the souls of the dead across the waters of Hades to the judgement which will determine their final resting place. The Greeks believed the dead needed a coin to pay Charon for his service and so one was placed in the mouth…
