4. Chariot
Here we throw words at the chariot, beginning with a review of this classic \u201csupreme military weapon\u201d emerging out of Eurasia about four thousand years back, before tackling its various archetypal, literary and artistic deployments. These include Plato\u2019s chariot evocation as a way of explaining the soul\u2019s construction; Emily Dickinson\u2019s poem posthumously titled and adulterated as \u201cThe Chariot\u201d (though we include a reading of its original lineation, words, and a missing stanza (no. 475)); the seat of Arjuna and Krishna\u2019s conversation in the BHAGAVAD GITA; the Tarot card of this name; Erich von D\xe4niken\u2019s CHARIOTS OF THE GODS; Duchamp\u2019s \u201cLarge Glass\u201d; the Circus Maximus race in the film \u201cBen Hur\u201d; the deployment of chariot in the 1915 parade of Suffragette\u2019s up Fifth Avenue in New York City; and Bob Dylan's "115th Dream." You won\u2019t want to miss our touching on much more ancient and contemporary lore as we seek to plumb the ongoing human fascination with this machine of imagination and violence.