archetypal gods and literary reflection
how different gods can be linked with genres ... gravity with Saturn, speed with Mercury, beauty with Venus, vehemence with Mars ... the god of historical time and slowness, Saturn, the archetypal swallower, who teaches us the art of internal digestion through the syndrome of his magistral depressions ... the rhetoric of the archetype is the way each god persuades us to believe in the myth that is the plot ... literary reflection is a primary mode of grasping where one is ignorant, unconscious, blind in regard to the case because one has not differentiated the subjective factor, the gods in one’s work