St. Patrick’s Dream: “We appeal to you, holy servant boy, to come and walk among us.”

 (From Wikipedia:) According to the Confession of St. Patrick, at the age of just sixteen Patrick was captured by a group of Irish pirates.  The raiders brought Patrick to Ireland where he was enslaved and held captive for six years. Patrick writes in The Confession  that the time he spent in captivity was critical to…

Monsters Carrying the Feminine

Why do so many movies from the fifties have monsters/robots carrying these passive women? (King Kong may have started it in the thirties.) It looks like some kind of some monstrous/masculine energy combined with an almost comatose feminine. The fifties were a time of  fear of nuclear annihilation and Betty Crocker/Susie Housewife models of the feminine….