#penelope murray

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@crepuscular-shoelace​ asked: moodboard + poppet murray

“poppet reads the stars,” he explains to bailey. “it’s the easiest place to see the future.”

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Moodboard for Poppet and Widget from The Night Circus as requested by anon

[as-lovely-as-dawn]

Character Mood boards: The Night Circus || Penelope ‘Poppet’ Murray

“That’s how it is with the circus. I know how it’s supposed to feel and it doesn’t feel like that right now and it hasn’t for a while. I can tell something’s wrong and I can feel it crumbling like cake that doesn’t have enough icing to hold it together but I don’t know what it is. Does that make any sense?” 

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Look to the stars

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The Muses were goddesses of poetry, but poetry itself encompassed a very wide domain. Many of the pre-Socratic philosophers (Parmenides, Xenophanes, Empedocles) expressed their thoughts in poetry, and Empedocles, at least, invokes the Muses for their aid. [...] Empedocles' use of the figure of the Muse should remind us of the range of the Muses' functions in the culture of early Greece: not only are they givers of pleasure who soothe cares and immortalize the deeds of men in song, as daughters of Mnemosyne they know everything about the past and the unseen world of the gods, and they are also authorities on ethical matters and wisdom generally.

Penelope Murray, “The Muses and their Arts”

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For the Memory which their mother embodies, and which the Muses in turn bestow upon poets, includes not only the ability to recollect the past and preserve it for the future, but also the power to transcend the constraints of mortal time. In mythic thought, as Jean-Pierre Vernant has shown, Memory enables the poet to see beyond the mortal world to the timeless realm of the gods; thus music and song, which are the Muses' gifts, enable human beings to communicate with the divine, to forget the limitations of ordinary human experience and to dwell for a moment with the gods.

Penelope Murray, “The Muses and their Arts”

[artofthemindblog]

We often are told the history of the Muse is the history of a fading metaphor; but that is to underestimate what a metaphor is, because in a way the Muse named something which you can't talk about in another way.

Penelope Murray, Founder member and retired Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Warwick

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Ready for Supanova! I'm so in love with this one. Poppet Murray - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern