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Amanda Seyfried as Linda Potter, Prostitute, twenty-five, in love with Elizabeth Lacon, currently having an affair with her and Oliver Lacon, open.
“So you love me but you can’t be with me because you’re afraid of what society is going to say? You can’t leave the stupid, abusing husband who’s only ever used you to finally know what happy feels like with me? I’m sorry Lizzie, but where I come from, that is called being a coward.”
Every man to his own, right? That’s how Linda Potter lived her life up until the day where she was pinned against the wall by two members of the upper class - in fact, two former ladies and now wives of members of the MI6. She knew this because she worked for them, from time to time. However, what one of this ladies, Elizabeth Lacon, was offering her was beyond anything she had ever done. She was to spy on her husband. To test him. At first, Linda was hesitant but with the amount of money the woman was offering her… it was hard to resist. Besides, she needed the money.
Linda never knew her parents. She doesn’t remember much of her past… all she does remember is that one day, she met this man called George Smiley, this man that felt what many others that passed her on the streets never did - pity. It was thanks to George Smiley that she got her job with the MI6, and since then, her life has been great. Yes, she sleeps with older, repulsive strangers but she has a decent life. She has a house of her own, a car, even a dog! The only thing missing in Linda’s life is a real love. A boyfriend. A husband… or, a girlfriend.
A wife. It was only in her eighteenth birthday that Linda assumed the fact that she was a homosexual, queer, whatever you want to call it, and up until the day where she met Elizabeth Lacon in a tight black silken dress she never knew the meaning of the word love. After that night, the young French girl from Paris started a forbidden romance with the Lady, and Linda’s not happy with having only half of Elizabeth.
She plans on killing Oliver after taking everything from him, and running off with Elizabeth back to France, where she owned a little cottage and there the couple could live happily ever after.
Her real name is not Linda Potter. She doesn’t remember it and adopted Linda Potter after George Smiley gave her a fake British passport.
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WOW!. How surprising. I never expected Nina Dobrev and Amanda Seyfried together!!.. I really love them both.
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The Melancholic fate of Medusa, the gorgon.
Medusa, originally a beautiful young woman whose crowning glory was her magnificent long hair, was desired and courted by many suitors. Yet before she could be betrothed to a husband, Poseidon (Neptune) found her worshipping in the temple of Athena (Minerva) and ravished her. Athena was outraged at her sacred temple being violated, and punished Medusa by turning her beautiful tresses into snakes and giving her the destructive power to turn anyone who looked directly at her into stone.
In both Greek and Roman mythology, Perseus, attempting to rescue his mother Danae from the coercive King Polydectes, needed to embark on the dangerous venture of retrieving Medusa’s head. With the help of Athena and Hermes - magic winged sandals, a cap, a pouch and a mirror-like shield, he fought her and beheaded her by viewing her image in the mirror of his shield rather than looking at her directly.
Some scholars believe that the Greek and Roman Medusa myth, as told by Ovid, expresses the vanquishing of the great goddess religions as the male gods Zeus/Jupiter and Poseidon/Neptune gained power. Others view it as expressive of the subjugation of women’s bodies and enslavement of their spirit by a violent and oppressive male-oriented culture, which viewed Medusa’s life-giving, creative, primal energy as threatening.
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Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse (1903)
In Greek mythology, Ekho was an Oread (mountain nymph) who loved her own voice. Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and visited them on Earth often. Eventually, Zeus’s wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mt. Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymphs.
Sometimes the young and beautiful nymph Echo would distract and amuse Zeus’ wife Hera with long and entertaining stories while Zeus took advantage of the moment to ravish the other mountain nymphs. When Hera discovered the trickery she punished the talkative Echo by taking away her voice, except in foolish repetition of another’s shouted words. Thus, all Echo could do was repeat the voice of another.
Echo was a beautiful and musical nymph who could sing and play many instruments. She lived in the woods and denied the love of any man or god. Pan, a lecherous god, fell in love with Echo, but she ran away from him. He became so angry when she refused him, he created such a “panic” causing a group of shepherds to kill her. Echo was torn to pieces and spread all over the Earth. The goddess of the earth, Gaia, received the pieces of Echo, whose voice remains repeating the last words of others. In some versions, Echo and Pan had two children: Iambe and Iynx.
Echo fell in love with a vain youth named Narcissus, who was the son of the blue Nymph Liriope of Thespia. The river god Cephisus had once encircled Liriope with the windings of his streams, trapping her, and seduced the nymph. Concerned about her infant son’s future, Liriope consulted the seer Teiresias. Teiresias told the nymph that Narcissus “would live to a ripe old age, as long as he never knew himself.”
One day when Narcissus was out hunting stags, Echo stealthily followed the handsome youth through the woods longing to address him but unable to speak first. When Narcissus finally heard footsteps and shouted “Who’s there?”, Echo answered “Who’s there?” And so it went, until finally Echo showed herself and rushed to embrace the lovely youth. He pulled away from the nymph and vainly told her to leave him alone. Narcissus left Echo heartbroken, and she spent the rest of her life in lonely glens pining away for the love she never knew, crying until all that was left was her voice. However, in other versions Echo cries until she is stone and an invisible Echo (probably her ghost/spirit) haunts the Earth.
The most popular version of the Echo/Narcissus story depicts that when Narcissus realises he is in love with his own reflection, he becomes utterly distraught and realising no way to fulfill his love, he takes his hunting knife and stabs himself through the heart. As the blood drops fell to the ground they spawned the first growth of the Daffodil, also known as the Narcissus flower (or plant).
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Orpheus was the greatest musician in Greek mythology. It is said that the sound of his voice and the notes from his harp had an enchanting effect on everything around him; rocks, animals, people, even the gods themselves admired his music. One story tells of the young musician strolling through the forest playing his tune, charming the oak trees to pull up their roots and rise. They followed the sound of his song to the edge of the river where they settled down once more as he stopped playing.
Perhaps the most famous story of Orpheus is that of the loss of his beloved wife, and his attempt to bring her back.
Orpheus had fallen madly in love with a young woman named Eurydice an oak nymph and one of the daughters of the god Apollo. The two got married upon his return from a long journey. There was a great ceremony held in their honor, some would say it was fit for a god. On the day of their wedding Eurydice along with some friends decided to take a stroll through a nearby meadow, in order to take a small respite from the celebration. As they strolled through the green fields, without notice, they came upon a large poisonous snake, Eurydice was bitten and before aid could be given to her, she succumbed to the poison and perished.
A cruel fate bestowed upon him, his beloved died on the same day he married her, so Orpheus cried and mourned her loss for weeks, until one day he mustered the courage to venture into the underworld itself to plead the dark lord for her return.
Orpheus played a majestic tune as he traversed the hell which his beloved had been sentenced to. It is said that the ferryman granted him free passage across the river styx after hearing him play. Dark spirits and twisted monstrosities gathered around him, they were swayed by his tune, even the hell hound Cerberus, guardian of hades himself stood down and whimpered at the melancholic tune of Orpheus.
Nearing the end of his journey, Orpheus was granted audience with Hades himself, master of the dark realm. Orpheus took his interment and weaves a song so powerful that even hades was moved by it’s beauty.
The dark lord agreed to return his wife to him, but not without placing one condition; Orpheus must take her hand and lead her up to the world of the living, but he may not look upon her until they have resurfaced. Orpheus’s gaze transfixed on the far away entrance, his hand wrapped around his beloved’s petite fingers, he could hear the soft padding of her feet as she ran behind him.
As they neared the entrance, Orpheus could no longer contain himself and looked back at Eurydice, gazing once more upon her splendrous smile, her beautiful face and her dark wavy hair. The moment was short lived, his actions violated Hades’s condition and she slowly began to fade away. Before disappearing completely, he embraced her tightly and she uttered her last words to him, “farewell my love.”
Orpheus was grieved and pleaded the ferryman to carry him across one more time…but this time, the ferryman would not hear his song.
Orpheus returned to the world of the living, heartbroken and alone. He spent the rest of his days living on a hill in Thrace, where he weaved songs for the trees and the animals of the woods. It is said that on the day he died, the trees shed their leaves, and all the birds cried for his loss. His spirit returned to the underworld, to join the ranks of the tormented souls. There he was reunited with his beloved, and although their eternity was spent in the dark realm, they were happy, and never feared being apart again.
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Gods and Goddesses (Greek Mythology)
The Big Three
Zeus is the “Father of Gods and men” who ruled the Olympians ofMount Olympus as a father ruled the family. He is the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. His Roman counterpart is Jupiter and his Etruscan counterpart is Tinia. eus was the child of Cronus and Rhea, and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he was married to Hera, although, at the oracle of Dodona, his consort was Dione: according to theIliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione. He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes,Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen, Minos, and the Muses (byMnemosyne); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.
Poseidon was the god of the sea, and, as “Earth-Shaker,” of earthquakes inGreek mythology.[1] The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin forNeptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon. Linear B tablets show that Poseidon was venerated at Pylos and Thebes in pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, but he was integrated into the Olympian gods as the brother of Zeus and Hades. Poseidon has many children. There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, although he lost the contest for Athens to Athena.
Hades was the ancientGreek god of the underworld. The genitive ᾍδου, Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: “[the house/dominion] of Hades”. Eventually, the nominative, came to designate the abode of the dead.
In Greek mythology, Hades is the oldest male child of Cronus and Rhea. According to myth, he and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated the Titans and claimed rulership over the cosmos, ruling the underworld, air, and sea, respectively; the solid earth, long the province of Gaia, was available to all three concurrently. Because of his association with the underworld, Hades is often interpreted in modern times as the personification of death[citation needed], even though he was not.
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Hera was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology. Her chief function was as the goddess of women and marriage. In Roman mythology, Juno was the equivalent mythical character. The cow, and later, the peacock were sacred to her. Hera’s mother was Rhea and her father, Cronus.
Hestia (Roman Vesta), first daughter of Cronus and Rhea (Ancient GreekἙστία, “hearth” or “fireside”), is the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and of the right ordering of domesticity and the family. She received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household. In the public domain, the hearth of the prytaneum functioned as her official sanctuary. With the establishment of a new colony, flame from Hestia’s public hearth in the mother city would be carried to the new settlement. She sat on a plain wooden throne with a white woolen cushion and did not trouble to choose an emblem for herself.
Hermes is the great messenger of the gods in Greek mythologyand a guide to the Underworld. Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. An Olympian god, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds andcowherds, of the cunning of thieves, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics and sports, of weights and measures, of invention, and of commerce in general. His symbols include the tortoise, the rooster, the winged sandals, the winged hat, and the caduceus.
Hephaestus was a Greek god whose Roman equivalent was Vulcan. He is the son of Zeus andHera, the King and Queen of the Gods - or else, according to some accounts, of Hera alone. He was the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fireand volcanoes. Like other mythic smiths but unlike most other gods, Hephaestus was lame, which gave him a grotesque appearance in Greek eyes. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and he was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centers of Greece, particularly in Athens. The center of his cult was in Lemnos. Hephaestus’s symbols are a smith’shammer, an anvil and a pair of tongs, although sometimes he is portrayed holding an axe.
Athena or Athene also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene, is the goddess of wisdom, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, female arts, crafts, justice and skill.Minerva, Athena’s Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is also a shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens. The Athenians built the Parthenon on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens, in her honour (Athena Parthenos).
Ares is the Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent aspect of war, in contrast to the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship.
Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Romanequivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name, and indeed the goddess herself, was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron ”Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals”. In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative) Ἄρτεμις, (genitive) Ἀρτέμιδος) was often described as the daughter of Zeusand Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals,wilderness, childbirth, virginity and young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her. In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth.
Apollo is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, medicine, healing, plague, music, poetry, arts and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. Apollo was worshiped in both ancient Greek and Roman religion, and in the modern Greco–Roman Neopaganism.
Demeter (/diˈmiːtər/; Attic Δημήτηρ Dēmētēr. Doric Δαμάτηρ Dāmātēr) is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains, the fertility of the earth, and the seasons(personified by the Hours). Her common surnames are Sito (σίτος: wheat) as the giver of food or corn/grain and Thesmophoros (θεσμός, thesmos: divine order, unwritten law) as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society. Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of theEleusinian Mysteries that predated the Olympian pantheon. In the Linear B Mycenean Greektablets of circa 1400-1200 BC found at Pylos, the “two mistresses and the king” are identified with Demeter, Persephone and Poseidon. Her Roman equivalent is Ceres.
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I Am Natures Greatest Miracle
Since the beginning of time never has there been another
withmy mind,my heart,my eyes,my hands,my hair,my
mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and
none thatcomes tomorrow can walk and talkand move and
think exactly like me. All men are my brothers yet Iam
different from each. Iam a unique creature.
Although, I am of the animal kingdom, animal
rewards alone will not satisfy me. Within me
burns a flame which has been passed from
generations uncounted and its heat is a
constant irritation to my spirit to become
better than I am, and I will. I will fan this flame
of dissatisfaction and proclaim my uniqueness
to the world.I am a unique creature of nature. I am rare, and there is
value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable. I am the end-
product of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am
better equipped in both mind and body that all the emperors
and wise men who preceded me.But my skills, my mind, my heart, and my body will stagnate,
rot, and die lest I put them to good use. I have unlimited
potential.Nevermore will I be satisfied with yesterday’s
accomplishments, nor will I indulge anymore, in self-
praise for deed which in reality are too small to even
acknowledge. I can accomplish far more than I have,
and I will, for why should the miracle which produced
me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that
miracle to my deeds of today?I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a
purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain,
not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I
apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain
of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for
mercy.I have been given eyes to se and a mind to think and now I
know a great secret of life for I perceive, at last, that all my
problems, discouragements, and heartaches are, in truth,
great opportunities in disguise. I will no longer be fooled by
the garments they wear for mine eyes are open. I will look
beyond the cloth and I will not be deceived.No beast, no plant, no wind, no rock, no lake
had the same beginning as I, for I was
conceived in love and brought forth with a
purpose.And nature knows not defeat. Eventually, she
emerges victorious and so will I, and with each victory
the next struggle becomes less difficult.I will win for I am unique. I am nature’s greatest
miracle.
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가슴이 소리쳐 말해: Stars with big hearts
“It’s so heartbreaking to see what happened in Japan, so I had to help at least a tiny bit, and I figured Salvation Army would be best. If everyone can donate something small, a big positive change can occur.”
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