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February 25, 2006 |
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Saturn Devours Youth
FOUND by Dave Gonda
in Albuquerque, New Mexico
I found this today on the floor at the Guild Cinema, a small independent theater here in Albuquerque. We were in the lobby between showings of a double feature consisting of "Death Race 2000" and "Wild in the Streets" when I saw this on the floor and, of course, picked it up. I have no idea what it means.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
It sounds like a reference to the painting by Goya "Saturn devouring his children"
It's very profound. I like it.
this is beautiful.
it means. saturn would be scary for youth. that would be the shape for youth.
but for an old man who isnt scared anymore, it saturn could not have the same shape.
I think that this is a little poem / metaphor about growing old and being okay with the thought of dying.
Saturn, I don't know what Saturn references, but it 'devours youth', and people are terrfied of death.
So, what is 'Saturn', to someone who accepts death and no longer fears it?
Saturn is the Roman god of agriculture and harvest, but he's better known as being the rough Roman equivalent to Cronus, the titan who devoured his children until his son Jupiter (Zeus in the Greek mythology) imprisoned him.
From the website Rick Steves' Europe:
Goya — Saturn Devouring One of His Sons (Saturno)
Fearful that his sons would overthrow him as king of the gods, the Roman god Saturn ate them. Saturn was also known as Cronus, or Time, and this may be an allegory of how Time devours us all. Goya was a dying man in a dying, feudal world. The destructiveness of time is shown in all its horror by a man unafraid of the darker side.
I believe this is a reference to astrology and Saturn's return. A time of testing that occurs approximately every thirty years in someone's chart. The second Saturn's return would be around age sixy and the third around age ninety. And indeed at age ninety if one's cosmic house is out of order - does one really care?
Goya- Time eventually devours everything. Goya was crazy at the time. Ah, those romantics
that makes sense, about the painting. Thanks, Nightingale, and Rana...
what shape has saturn for an old man who isn't afraid anymore? that's strangely profound, to me.
anyone read People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia? hard to say if that's what the writer of the note was thinking about, but it was the first thing that popped into my head. it's like a surrealist version of 100 Years of Solitude, where the main character's name is Saturn, and he, in a strange way, plays God. don't want to say too much more in the way of a spoiler, in case anyone is reading/wants to read it. it's quite good.
I'm going with Rana's Goya reference. Here's the painting in question (I hope the link works): <IMG SRC="http://www.inminds.co.uk/goya-saturn.jpg&
Though I personally think the better find is a theatre that plays "Death Race 2000"!
ok, let me try that again...
http://www.inminds.co.uk/goya-saturn.jpg
Also, the painting by Goya was referenced in "El labarinto del fauno" (Pan's Labyrinth). Perhaps this could explain its presence in a theatre at least.
This is pretty clearly a reference to the Goya painting "Saturn Devouring His Children," the allegorical reference being used as a structural lynchpin for the rest of the blank verse. I'll hazard an answer to the verse's question: Saturn's current shape would be of loss or grief for one's lost past (assuming the painting frightened the author of the verse when he was young.)