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__**Middlesex: Home Movies and Opa!**__ __3. Questions of significance__ __4. Quotations__ __7. Term or Theory__ __Aquinas pg 221__ Thomas Aquinas was a catholic theologist and priest. his new theories and philosophy created change and illuminated new ideas. Cal describes the Greek Orthodox, "a faith that stretched back to the beginnings of christianity, when it was Greek and not Latin, and which, without an Aquinas to reify it, had remained shrouded in the smoke of tradition and mystery whence it began." Cal implies that he wishes the Church was newer, more understandable, and more relatable. this connects religion to past. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas
 * 226, family avoids female body parts
 * 227, candles don't blow out after wish
 * 249, Marius...Grimes throws the bomb into the diner
 * 242, tanks stop at stop signs and red lights...irony of course but more significance?
 * 247-51 difference between guerilla and snipers
 * 229, "You and me are probably related"
 * 242, "this masculine background served only to emphasize Chapter Eleven' lack of heroic qualities
 * Cal's Voice and Gender Identity
 * 215, "It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts"
 * 217, Cal will be subjective, also references the change in the story as a meiosis (male)
 * 218, "the mouth is small but well shaped, kissable, musical" (female)
 * 219, big paragraph is female voice...the details
 * 222, Cal describes how he peed on Father mike, "No one wondered about the engineering involved" (male)
 * 225, identifies with mother
 * 226, Easter film...cal is definitely female, shows how gender identity is established early in life
 * 232, "They always think its the old-school, gentlemanly routine. the slowness of my advances" female stereotype of perfect guy but cal is masculine here because it appears that he uses this almost satirically or bitterly?
 * 232, returns to female, when cant dress down and decides to set the scene, "slowly, leisurely, thats the way"
 * 235, female storytelling, "On this historic night" dramatic
 * 237, mentioning prostitutes, Cal says that they must "do them for free" which is strong male diction
 * 243, Calliope saves her father but insists it has nothing to do with gender...does it?
 * Greek and American and Past and Present
 * 216-7, Desdemona is like Lina when she thinks Lefty is dead
 * 220-1, the church s a combo of past and present and greek and american
 * 222-3, Desdemona is against americanizing but takes to the TV
 * 223, change and assimilation seen through Milton serving cocktails instead of Metaxa
 * 224, Lefty still has greek contacts...cant lose past
 * 234, Milton adheres to greek custom of not shaving for a death, the death of his future plans and ambitions
 * 235, parents room is fully american (old vs young)
 * 240, Race riots are like Smyrna
 * 241, three days of weird time reminiscent of past.
 * 247, what old men would be doing...past contrasts present (old and young)
 * 249, Calliope braves the guerilla warfare but is not prepared from images of past
 * Old vs. Young and circles
 * 223, "I erased the years between us. I gave Desdemona back her original skin" circle and connects young and old.
 * 224, "from the opposite ands of life" sort of circle, Lefty and Calliope
 * 225, Milton is similar to Lefty, becoming distant and working a lot, however there are some notable differences what is the significance to the different relationships?
 * 234, "Lefty had begun to seem old to his son...scanning a dead language" (greek and american). wow thats a change
 * Mutations and the Gene and Fate vs. Science
 * 215-6, mentions that the nurse should know deformities, but fate had it that she was attracted to Dr. P, "For whom the moment was also destiny" "Chance"
 * 217, story described as meiosis
 * 219, "hocus-pocus" describes religion*** it was used previously!!!**
 * 219, Milton brings bad Karma by waiting for baptism and fixing the church
 * 222, Calliope pees on father mike and he does not forgive her sin
 * **223, "Blood intervened" similar personification to when Cal says that the gene is what drove Lefty and Desdemona together** * could that be why they resort back to brother and sister, because the gene was embodied????
 * 238, Desdemona believes the race riots and the bad luck is from not fixing the greek church

__Aeolian pg 227__ this just describes something connected to the Greek God of wind. Callie is blowing out her candles and calls it an aeolian breath. this demonstrates the connection Callie/Cal feels with her/his past and heritage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolian

__Ptolemy blood...Roman men pg 231__ Ptolemy dynasties/royalty inbred my marrying siblings. Similarly, sibling marriages is thought to be common and even preferred in ancient Egypt and only ended when the Romans came and threatened to withhold citizenship from sibling spouses. one article about the sibling marriages claims that this is a challenge to the incest taboo, which connects to what i first logged about, is it taboo because it is wrong or is it wrong because its a taboo and nothing more. Marius Grimes tells Calliope, "Must be that Ptolemy blood. Just stay away from Roman men, okay?" he alludes to the fact that in her past there was inbreeding and refers to Romans, who would ostracize her. this is a stretch but what else could it mean? by Marius' language it appears that he understands her heritage but is it more ironic than anything else? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding http://family.jrank.org/pages/854/Incest-Inbreeding-Taboos-Sibling-Marriage-Human-Isolates.html http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/humor/random_scholar/roman-egypt-brother-sister-marriage-2008.html