Is your Creative Spirit a Hermes or an Apollo? A reflection on the sage-like father-energy of writer Michael Martone, a Hermes if there ever was one.
Pull Quotes
- “…My heads still spinning from it….He’s a great raconteur and a great teacher….I want to get this down, mostly for myself. This distinction that [Martone] made. He was talking about Apollo vs. Hermes. There’s an Apollonian notion of creativity, and that is that Apollo was the most beautiful god, the best poet (etc), and Hermes was the messenger, the trickster. Always sort of malleable in his messenging. The thing about the Hermetic approach to creativity is that it’s always about curiosity….you’re always moving the boundaries that you encounter. The Apollonian model is much more fixed…”
- “If you take the Hermes approach, your fight is to always get noticed. If you’re playing around with the boundaries, nobody even notices that….I’ve put a lot of pressure on myelf to get a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and it’s very helpful to think, ah, maybe I’m not an Apollonian.”
Rabbit Holes
- Martone’s website: https://www.fourforaquarter.com/
- An interview with Martone @ HTML Giant: Linky Thing
- Martone on the You+Toob via @timothygager: Another Linky Thing
- Martone’s new book: Table Talks & Second Thoughts