After today's class, I came back to my room and began pondering what to write for my blog. Low on inspiration, I turned on my Doors cd, and was struck by the lyrics to the song L'America. It tells a condensed version of the Bacchae almost exactly.
C'mon people, don't ya look so down
You know the rain man's comin' ta town
Change the weather, change your luck
And then he'll teach ya how ta...find yourself
Now from the first lines of Bacchae, I recognized the Rain Man as Dionysus, come to Thebes to make a little mischief.
Friendly strangers came to town
All the people put them down
But, the women loved their ways
Come again some other day
This final section strikes me as the chorus and the Maenads, who are mocked and punished by Pentheus. And while his aunts and mother might be mad as hatters, their only option is to love the bacchic revelry.
C'mon people, don't ya look so down
You know the rain man's comin' ta town
Change the weather, change your luck
And then he'll teach ya how ta...find yourself
Now from the first lines of Bacchae, I recognized the Rain Man as Dionysus, come to Thebes to make a little mischief.
Friendly strangers came to town
All the people put them down
But, the women loved their ways
Come again some other day
This final section strikes me as the chorus and the Maenads, who are mocked and punished by Pentheus. And while his aunts and mother might be mad as hatters, their only option is to love the bacchic revelry.
Tom Cruise in the movie Rain Man. Sort of resembles that troublemaker look that Elvis wears. The Bacchic lip curl?
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