Amor Fati

 

Spoiler Alert: 

In the last episode of The White Lotus  one of the main characters cries “he killed my father.” “He was your father” is the plaintive response. "Amor Fati" is the finale. It means "a love of fate." As you will recall Oedipus brings about the very thing he's running from—which is a life lesson for everyone. It’s a particularly clever turn of the screw in this instance  Rather than trying to elude the oracle, the perp is a victim of misinformation. He's got his facts wrong. This final scene also recalls the kind of carnage you find in the finale of Medea. The blood of innocents flows. The notion of the tragic flaw or "hamartia" is almost perfectly limned by Mike White in the creation of his sullen wayfarer. BTW the death scene of the two lovers lying on lilies recalls Millais' "Ophelia."

read "Pet Buddha" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

listen to James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing "It's a Man's World"

and listen to "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Wants to Dance)" by Tina Charles (1975)

and listen to "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne with Belinda Carlisle

and listen to "Twenty-Five Miles From Home" by Edwin Starr