opening with the minatour as throat

Oh dear for me I think a minotaur moment is arrived ... the minotaur is the 'other' but also the wall I'm up against in my writing ... what is the minotaur for me, I've always focused on Ariadne and her thread as text, as language or more than that a form of discourse ... this 'monster  is not right for me its too aestheticized, Picasso's are more it for me, the grey of Guernica is the minotaur in death as death, and thats the wall one comes up to when writing at the edge of all that you possibly know when the thread has run out, (Ariadne's red thread) and its dark and you have no way known; to make the next move in language, in thinking, in making... ah death is always the beginning. Death of the known ways ...
I'm thinking of Kali and the Erishkigal story, I will write that up for you Laurel, or as you asked orate it into a machine and put it here ... there are so many  situations that are this place I'm thinking of Lady Macbeth,  I did a voice opera of her I'll put it here (opps link broken, I'll fix it).... here's another one I did re Dante called Via Error a text, click here and here's Ariadne's Dead Thread its called why did I put 'dead' in the title, can't remember, because it is 'limp' without a tension of resolution ...? click here to link to it. Here's another one Snap snap snap your jaws  a film click here and another one Shuttle Throated click here, for me the minotaur is in my throat, it is there the labyrinth  must be undertaken.

 

'This Picasso etching incorporates elements of the earlier work but, in contrast to most of Picasso's graphics at this time, it is heavily textured, indicating much pentimenti, viz:  

the rain cloud, upper right, with the line extending down through the Minotaur's left arm (the etching plate evidently was burnished to erase the line and finally scratched over); 

Picasso is always explicit about sex organs, yet obfuscates the Minotaur's genitals here; 

there is a difference in scale of the Minotaur's arms and legs, his left leg is similar in distortion to the knee of the Rushing Woman in Guernica ; 

there is an unexplained drape (muleta?) to the right of the Minotaur; the lump on the back of the Minotaur's neck could have been a smaller head scratched over to become a large hirsute neck; 

the decoration on the Torera's traje de luces changes; her legs and right arm seemed unattached to her body; 

the building either extends out into the water beyond the shore, or Picasso did not continue the side down to the earth.

These and many other indications suggest that the Minotauromachia began as another variation of the frolicking brute. Evidently as Picasso was caught up in the more profound implications of the myth he used it as a comment on his times, and that comment reached its culmination with Guernica, that gray icon of life and anti-life' ... for more ... quoted from here

Below is the Theseus-Mosaic. Center: Theseus kills the Minotaur; top: Theseus and Ariadne aboard ship: right: grieving Ariadne. Mosaic, ca. 4th, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria