New Blog or Old Blog

As I set up this blog for this class I find myself thinking, haven't I done this before? and the answer in more than one ways is yes. This is the second blog I've set up for Lit 436 but I'm also pretty sure that I have done this same blog before. I decided to get fancy and as I set up my own personal settings I decided to start my blog with a picture of a sunset, or is it a sunrise? You might never know. Is the sun just rising out of it's nightly underworld journey or is it just beginning that arduous task. It made me laugh because it doesn't really matter the picture is beautiful either way and if what we've been talking about in class is true then it doesn't matter where in the cycle I start because everything is circular and everything is repeated. Every ending is a beginning and every beginning is an ending. That's a line in a song I think, called "Closing Time" by Semisonic check it out. My favorite line comes at the end of the second verse "Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end" it's also quite fittingly at the very end of the song. They also say that closing time is "time for you to go out to the places you will be from" yet another beginning coming from an ending. The Eternal Return shows us that everything returns to exactly where it once was. Everything returns to it's own beginning at its end. SPOILER ALERT: the seven book Dark Tower Series by Steven King (READ IT!!!!!!) is close to Finnegans Wake it that the last lines of the last book MATCH the opening lines of the first book driving the reader almost insane. The Eternal Return shows that we continually circle through the motions of our lives and the reset button is what we are striving for though we don't know it. Steven King does imply by a slight change that it is possible to get out of this eternal cycle and that is what Nietzsche would call "being." So even though I can logically defer that I have set this blog up before it kinda feels like the same thing over and over again maybe with slightly variations but not really.