Rape of the Wall

A few days back, we discussed rape and abduction as an iconographic theme. The Greeks had much to say about it - we spoke of various examples in Classical art. Then, sir posited an absurd question - we were to think about what can be more absurd than the rape of a hand glove (a quasi-Christian example).

We, of course, all gave examples - rape of the sanitary napkin, rape of the phone, etc. I gave the example the rape of the wall - it contained both the elements of desperation and frustration so it was arguably an example of rape. Dr. Miroy said it was very Ateneo High School - apparently, there was a famous play there, Sinta, which was/had an excerpt from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The wall was central there - in the myth of Pyranus and Thisbe (a story similar to Romeo and Juliet).

Pyranus and Thisbe, of course, propped up in discussion again - this time in Love and Death (Eros-Thanatos) as an Iconographic theme. It just strikes me as interesting how everything seems to be tied together.

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My roommate said staring at blank spaces at the wall in front of you is good for studying and concentration. At tense situations, at crunch times and at hell weeks, we see this and this, then, is the Rape of the Wall. We take it on the blank space in front of us by staring at it.