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Xanthippe.

Socrates Drinking the Hemlock

Artist: Antonio Zucchi, RA (Italian, 1726-1796)

Date: 1767

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Description

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, is taking his own life by drinking hemlock, after he had been sentenced to death by the Athenian authorities, while his disciples look on in anguish.

Eve

Eve is the first woman who became a philosopher.  She became a feminist when she ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge by tempted by Satan. Eve’s violation of a sacred taboo makes her the first feminist philosopher.  She used deduction and this implies that she turned down God’s injunction: though shall not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and turned it down when Satan gleefully said: if you eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge you will become like God. Eve’s defiance has given birth to the Freudian Ego. Eve also gave rise to rational thought.

Sappho

Sappho is a poetess belonging to ancient Greece. The poems that she wrote were lesbian in content. She is the pioneer of differently abled sex. Her poems are lyrical, poetic and sublime. She charmed the feminist amour with the seductive nectar of love. She blazed the culture of sex with poetic adages. She has given birth to queer philosophy.

Xantippe

Xantippe is the wife of the Philosopher who has been marginalized in the history of philosophy. She is sole bread winner of the family while Socrates went preaching sermons without caring for the family. Her shrewishness can be attributed to the beginning of pragmatism.

Mary

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

Ooh what a fun question! My ideal writing space is tucked up in our little chair near the window, with ambient coffee shop music playing and a cup of tea at my side and the lights low enough to avoid headaches. More often, I write at my desk, which is a painted antique, with my noisy keyboard and my cat who likes to shove her way into my lap. And nearly as often, at least these days, I write on my phone while commuting as it's all the free time I have.

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

Gosh, Xan, hitting me with the hard ones! I try to find inspiration from the little intimacies around me. I love to get lost in details, and there are so many tiny details of each and every day -- the feeling of bare feet on a hardwood floor, the sound of coffee brewing, or the upstairs neighbors waking up, eye contact with another commuter rushing out the door (not fast enough), the smell of a new book, the way light looks on windows due for cleaning… all of these tiny moments can mean so much more if I spend time in them. Whoever it is that washes the window could become a character, and then I'll have to discover all the tiny details of their life too until they feel as alive as the sunlight I saw in the first place. When the inspiration well runs dry, it is less because I am out of tiny details, and more because I am too tired to look at them. When I'm out of inspiration, it's most often a sign I need to rest and be patient with myself (two things I am very bad at doing).

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