TFv02 CH 24 The Reunionist (annotated)

Annotations for The Reunionist from Into the Forest.

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**Simone Weil**

 French philosopher, Christian mystic, and political activist

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**ailurophobic**

Fear of cats

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**Plato**

"An unexamined life is not worth living"

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**Sianne Ngai**

Specializes in American literature, literary and cultural theory, and feminist studies. Her books are Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting and Ugly Feelings.

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**All this has happened before and it will happen again**

Ronald D. Moore, one of the executive producers and developer of the revamped Battlestar Galactica (2004), cites this film (Peter Pan) as the inspiration for one of the recurring themes of his series concerning the cyclical nature of time. The opening line of the film "All of this has
happened before, and it will all happen again" is frequently quoted as a piece of scripture in Moore's series

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**Cat Jeoffry**

poem (Fragment)

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**Marie-Louise von Franz**

(4 January 1915 – 17 February 1998) was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, renowned for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts

**Feminine Redemption**

The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption

**yellowish caricature**

See the link above

**Prado**

Museo del Prado in Madrid

**thyrsus**

A wand or staff of giant fennel (fenikel) covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae (stuha) and always topped with a pine cone. Associated with Dionysus (or Bacchus) and his followers, the Satyrs and Maenads, is a symbol of prosperity, fertility, hedonism, and pleasure/enjoyment in general.

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**Introjects**

Introjection, one of many defense mechanisms posited by Sigmund Freud, occurs when a person internalizes the ideas or voices of other people. This behavior is commonly associated with the
internalization of external authority, particularly that of parents. Mentioned in V1 88 - introjection - the unconscious adoption of the ideas or attitudes of others.

**cathexis**

In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea

**William Moulton Marston**

(May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947) also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman

**True Mirrors**

 A non-reversing mirror (sometimes marketed as a true mirror) is a mirror that presents its subject as it would be seen from the mirror (Wikipedia)

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**foolscap**

A size of paper, now standardized at about 300 × 200 (or 300 × 400) mm

## Page 618

Author describes meeting the ghost of his dead cat...

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**language originally called Mocha**

Shekkacho (also Mocha, Shakacho, Shekka) is an Afro-Asiatic Omotic language, spoken mainly in the Sheka Zone in southwestern Ethiopia

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**gato**

Cat. Tic tac toe in spanish is called gato.

**Anthony Bourdain**

American chef, author, and television personality

## Page 635

Why isn't the fractal near the spine pink on this page (at least next to the first paragraph)? This is a flashback: "earlier in the day...", written in past tense.

**MacArthur Fellows Program**

A prize awarded annually typically to between 20 and 40 individuals, working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work and are citizens or residents of the United States"

## Reader's Guide Questions:

***8. One of the five “ratings” for this volume is “sex” (p. 33). To what extent does each character’s gender and environment alter their experience of sex and sexuality—such as Astair’s interaction with Ananias Fielding (pp. 625‒629)?***

***17. The poem “The Reunionist” (p. 618) has the ability to fiercely hold Astair in its grips. How did it strike you? Did it provide additional insight into what makes Astair tick?***

## Pages 636-637– ENTR'ACTE 4 – Senex in Library

**Bubastis**

 an Ancient Egyptian city + the name of Ozymandias’s genetically-engineered
lynx in The Watchmen

**Ta-miu**

 she-cat of Prince Thutmose, the eldest son of pharaoh Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye

**papyrus of Ani**

 a papyrus manuscript with cursive hieroglyphs and color illustrations created c. 1250 BCE, in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Egyptians compiled an individualized book for certain people upon their death, called the *Book of Going Forth by Day*, more commonly known as the *Book of the Dead*, typically containing declarations and spells to help the deceased in their afterlife. The *Papyrus of Ani* is the manuscript compiled for the Theban scribe Ani.

**Ho trovato una cosa!**

 I've found something!

**greek and latin**

greek - house-servant, latin - servant, attendant, especially of a scholar or a magician

Show a connection between the blue house of House of Leaves and pink familiar of The Familiar.

Looks like Senex is the house-servant/famulus and the new connection could be the connection between the cat and Xanther (old one is between cat and tian-li)