http://www.olyoptics.com/test/arm-comics.html
For those unfamiliar with Patty Hearst:
"[..] On February 4, 1974, Hearst, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Randolph A. Hearst and Catherine C. Hearst, of the Hearst newspaper chain, was kidnapped by a tiny group of political extremists who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). They locked Hearst in a closet for many weeks, where she was taunted, sexually assaulted, and raped repeatedly. The SLA held her for an unusual form of ransom: they demanded that the Hearst family distribute millions of dollars of food to poor and needy people of the San Francisco Bay area. Although the Hearsts complied with this and other SLA demands, the young woman did not return to her parents. Instead, she sent them a tape recording in which she announced that she had decided to become a revolutionary, join the SLA, and go underground. [..]
Patty Hearst's Stockholm syndrome episode is uncannily like the life experience of "Armature," the latter being a totally fictional character and the creation the graphic novelist, Steve Oliff. Patty Hearst also became a, "A chaotic neutral amnesiac, a cross between a doomed kid and an alien."
I only found these existing similarities by making a little experiment, by searching for any artist who may have been born on the same date as Patty Hearst. I was testing out my premise that there are what I call parallel expressions of the "influences" of a given day, and these are manifested in the way persons express themselves 'artistically'. These related expressions can be found in different people, or more often from the same person at different times, are like variations on a theme in music, or in the arts in general.
question:
If there is any truth to the premise of astrology, how come people born on the same day are obviously not the same ?
answer:
Well, the answer is really another question--what does the same really mean ?
The better question might be, how much are they alike, and why any likeness at all? Why is it that Patty Hearst 'real life' fictional character, "Tanya," was created in such a way as to be mentally or emotionally similar to Steve Oliff's , Armature--the first character he ever created and wrote for on his own.
I was stunned when I read the description of Armature. I mean, what are the odds that I could intentionally seek out a person born on Patty Hearst's birth date, and get such an eloquently relevant introduction?
The second part of this experiment was to see if I could use Steve's art work to make an educated guess as to what time of day he was born. The following illustration shows how we can use one of his promotional drawings from Amazon.com to identify his birth time.
illustration comparing drawing to birth chart:
http://pedantus.free.fr/Oliff_S_01b.gif
Mars, the astrological planet symbol, has its expressed parallel in drawings as a "pointy thing," in male drawings. Birth charts are of course drawings too, of a sort, and I find that artistic (expressive) drawings show the same inspiration, the same something-or-other in the human psyche which finds its way in to language and graphic arts. This character, Stiletto, has such a big sword that it covers quite a bit of angle. At four minutes of time for each degree of the Zodiac, I could only come close to the exact birth time. I did not realize that if we split the sword in this picture (above) we do get nearly the exact Zodiacal degree said to be ascending at the actual time of birth. So, it was a successful anecdotal "experiment", which of course pleases me to no end... : )
Rog
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