a fruit for October
Oct. 29th, 2009 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amelia_petkovaI don't know what it is that's making me post on LJ so often this October, but I like it!
So I'm working on a writing exercise that involves the painting "Proserpine" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (see my user icon). There's a pomegranate in it, I got to thinking about the Persephone myth, and...
How awesome would it have been on so many symbological levels if in the movie Labyrinth, Jareth had given Sarah a pomegranate instead of a peach? I started grinning just thinking about it. The only drawback is that a pomegranate is a hell of a lot harder to eat.
So I'm working on a writing exercise that involves the painting "Proserpine" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (see my user icon). There's a pomegranate in it, I got to thinking about the Persephone myth, and...
How awesome would it have been on so many symbological levels if in the movie Labyrinth, Jareth had given Sarah a pomegranate instead of a peach? I started grinning just thinking about it. The only drawback is that a pomegranate is a hell of a lot harder to eat.
