"the practice of telling stories to save your life"

[lotesse]

Heard the most fantastic lecture last night from Marina Warner, whose book From the Beast to the Blonde I had a passionate love affair with some years back. She talked about Freud's Smyrna Rug, and the Arabian Nights, and the connections between dreaming and sex and storytelling and psychic healing.

I fangirled at her briefly after; I totally want to be her when I grow up.

Comments

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

Marina Warner! *bounces up and down* Gods, I love people who write and talk about the importance of stories. Have you read Scheherazade Goes West by Fatema Mernissi? She's a Moroccan author; this book is about the different perceptions of a harem between Western men and herself (she grew up in a harem). She has the most awesome things to say about Scheherazade and the Arabian Nights.