Back in the land of blogging

Hey ya'll. After a LONG absence, I am finally back to the land of blogging! So... my first entry is going to be mainly notes, and then I will actually write something about Frye and all. So... notes!
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repetetive parallelism- "Joseph was both handsome and good looking"
anthropocentrism and antheocentrism
paranomasia- word play
Mark Twain- "Puns are the lowest form of humor."
documentary hypothesis- pentateuc- 1st 5 books of the Bible

Question of the day: Are our lives a series of unconscious repetition? Historically, the answer would have to be yes, since history does repeat itself, and even for an individual the answer would probably lean towards the affirmative. So the next question: what happens when someone consciously upsets that pattern? Or tries? A great example of that would be Chronos/Uranus/Zeus trying to keep their offspring from overthrowing them. They come up with some pretty creative (if rather disgusting) methods of trying to prevent this. But just because they consciously try to disrupt the repetition, doesn't mean that it works. So what keeps pulling them back into the cycle?.....