Week 2 Reading Anthology

Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Tony Kline (2000).

I found this story to be such a literal form of "fake it until you make it."  I found Pygmalion's relationship with the ivory statue to be quite odd until I realized the direction the story was going in.  This was my favorite story because it is something still so common today that it could be considered human nature.  People typically portray themselves in a better light than they actually see themselves, because they want others to see the person they want to be, which is not always the person they actually are.  The same goes for romantic relationships or material possessions.  People will imagine having things that are not theirs.  It's as if we are trying to manifest something into existence even though we know it's not real.  

Pygmalion priant Vénus d'animer sa statue by Jean-Baptiste Regnault