Hoosgot

http://jmcgready.com/invoking-the-muse/ asks Hoosgot,

I’ve been listening to an audio version of The War of Art. by Steven Pressfield. Aside from a small and slightly annoying “Fundamentalists (rather broadly defined) can’t be creative” tear within the first third of the book, there’s much to be learned about resistance and the aid that comes when we actually sit down to do the work. So what has this got to do with invoking the Muse? Part of his ritual to begin work is praying Homer’s invocation of the Muse that starts The Odyssey as translated by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). I’d like to work something like that into a creative ritual, I’m uneasy invoking the aid of daughters of Zeus, much like Thomas Hobbes’ “Answer …

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