The tumult, the throng of opinions proliferate and bombard, but the truth seems to be we are dust and will shortly return.

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Rousseau emphasizes caution about how much value you place on human opinion, especially about death.  

Why do animals know how to die?

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Do you truly enjoy your life, right now?  LL says she does sometimes, especially in nature, but when she has anxiety, she is oriented towards the future.  “It is a hundred times harder to appear to be happy than it is to be happy.” – Rousseau

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From JJ Rousseau’s Emile I read about the goal-orientedness of most and how life passes one by as we’re always thinking of other things.  Emile, his ideal student, even if he dies young, will live fully.  I relate this to Dostoevsky’s relating of the idea of immortality as being fully in the present.  LL relates this to a recent clip of Mike Tyson against Undying Glory.

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We summarize and discuss the Grimm’s Brothers story “Snow White & Rose Red” and discuss it.  In this story an old woman has two complementary daughters, one of whom stays at home and does chores, and the other who frolics in the fields, but who are also inseparable and spend a lot of time in nature together, even sleeping outside sometimes.  They are watched over by what their mother says is a children’s protective spirit.  One day a bear terrifies them all but becomes their friend, sheltered by them in winter, and the bear later dispatches a very rude dwarf whose beard the girls had cut repeatedly in freeing him from various traps he’s gotten himself into.  The dwarf’s death frees the prince from the spell the wicked diminutive had burdened him with, and the golden-clad prince marries the paragon of purity.  We draw parallels with the other more famous Snow White story.

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Rose Red and her sister seem almost two aspects of one character.  Why the two?  Comparing this story with Snow White & the Dwarves, we think maybe it has something to do with the dwarves, who are very different in this story than the other. (Please see the next clip linked below.)

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We try to understand why Rose Red is necessary and compare it to the other Snow White story.

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LL wonders what the purpose of the Red girl in the story is.  Perhaps they represent –are an abstraction of– two aspects of femininity, with White being the pure inside aspect, and Red the more wild and natural part, akin maybe to Greek goddesses Athena and Artemis.  

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I compare Snow White to the Virgin Mary, a symbol of purity, and think of how she ends up in both “Rose Red” and the more famous Snow White tale.  She is contrasted with the rude usurper.  

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We compare various aspects of the two stories.  The dwarves have very different characters.  In the “Rose Red” story the dwarves are very ungrateful, greedy and cowardly, and the last is finally dispatched summarily.  In both stories Snow White is very deserving of admiration and love.

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