Alexander Romance in India

[susan]

Just a reminder - there's a 1937 article on the 'Alexander Romance in India' at http://murugan.org/research/gopalapillai.htm .
I've been told that it's getting quite a lot of hits; if anyone on Pothos is interested in Sanskrit literature maybe they can have a look at it and see what they think of it.Susan

[jan]

Thanks, Susan, I appreciate this. I was able to find Sir James George Fraser's The Golden Bough on the internet. I also found a pair of shoes today which is apropo also. All for designing women, methinks! Jan

[marcus]

"The Golden Bough" and a pair of shoes - I'm sure there's some esoteric explanation for that, Jan - perhaps the year-king at Lake Nemi was expected to have a sideline in cobbling, in addition to having lots of food, drink and rumpy-pumpy before his ritual killing ...

[jan]

Hi Marcus,I am having so much fun with this study of Alexander. It is just strange that there is a shoe blowout for women's shoes at E&J shoes, and I noticed a pair of sandals made by East India Company, RZ designers, and the ring around the big toe caught my attention. There are at least four different colors for this one style shoe, and I was awestruck by the details. It is a lot like a bad pun, based on the old child's rhyme, eenie, meenie, miney, mo, catch a (expletive) by the toe. In the movie Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone, the word redneck is substituted for the word "nigger" in the original script by Quentin Tarantino. Because of Alexander the Great, I have become acquainted with Oliver Stone and his films now. Natural Born Killers uses black net stockings on the person of Mallory as Little Voices uses on the mother of the recluse in that English movie starring Michael Caine. I am struck by the likeness between Mallory and the character of the mother in Little Voices. So I think that India has produced a shoe to catch a "femme". It all just touches my sense of humor funny bone sometimes, and as Susan was so kind to provide this link, I read it all the way through, learned the meaning for Tuesday as that has been on my mind so much, and also learned about the corn and Frazer. So it has been a most rewarding experience in which I am overexplaining myself too much. Nonetheless, finally in court reporting briefs, the brief or shorthand for insanity, or insane, is snan.More later if still interested in my mental connections! All in the name of Zeus, of course! Jan (jumbled)

[susan]

JanYou've found more in this paper on Alexander in India than I thought possible; I'm glad that you enjoyed it, and you may well be interested in Frazer and the Golden Bough. Email me if you any further references;Susan