Argonaut Online Arts

TUES 18 NOV 2003

Feast of gloom reaps a varied harvest

By Ashleigh Hebert
Argonaut Staff

Sanguine: governed by blood, influenced by air. Cheerful/ irresponsible/ gregarious/ affectionate.

Doldrums swirl and mull like grey clouds of ash. For the sanguines, the period of late autumn is the most intolerable time of year. The snow has not come yet and so the landscape is bleak and lifeless. Sanguine blood is pumping slowly, and sanguine spirits are low. Friendship from afar, nourished by letters and phone calls, will seem more vivid at the moment than face-to-face acquaintanceships. Emotion and fun can be read into words written or spoken, but anyone who is in daily contact with sanguines will see that they are not at the peak of their energy. They should spend the next week seeking scholarships and pursuing other academic goals, because sanguine intellects are the sharpest when their social lives are the dullest.

Choleric: governed by gastric juices, influenced by fire. Hot-tempered/ highly organized/ bossy/ excellent leadership.

The unquenchable fire of the cholerics rages against the slow death of November. The coming weeks before the holidays begin will be full of ambition, frustration and work for the cholerics. Never liking to leave a trace of work undone, they will complete every single unnecessary task before Thanksgiving break. They will have organized their closets, replanted the new buds from their aloe plants and done all the other miniscule chores that most people would neglect. Their vigor will not go unnoticed, and they should brace themselves for the romantic advances of phlegmatics.

Melancholic: governed by bile, influenced by earth. Pessimistic/ obsessive/ introverted/ artistically passionate.

We are well into the Feast of Gloom, celebrated by melancholics all over the wide, wide world. Join in the ancient rite of self-loathing and alienation. Watch them pine after romantic devastations. Hear them brood upon self-wrought, self-inflicted insults. While the rest of the world is missing summer or hoping for the ski season, melancholics revel in this torpor between the seasons. The skeletal black trees and empty fields are beautiful to melancholics because of their drama and their assertion of imminent death. Melancholics have a trip in the near future and should by all means travel alone, because in this exultantly depressed state of mind, they will not be fit for social consumption.

Phlegmatic: governed by phlegm, influenced by water. Emotionless/ lazy /passive /steady.

Phlegmatic personality matches the weather: not warm enough to be stale, but not turbid enough to be violent. They never stagnate, they never rumble. Since they prefer to remain frozen, they tend to rely on more diligent or buoyant humors to take action, and wait till the very last moment to do anything themselves. However, in the coming weeks the fiery spirit of the cholerics will inspire them to actually do something. This is a true instance of opposites attract. All it will take is one minor action, such as a hiccup, on the part of the phlegmatics. Cholerics know all the secret flirtational vibes enshrouded in a hiccup and how to act upon them. Accordingly, the cholerics will take charge of the relationship, and a bipolar romance will ensue. Phlegmatics may not only be interested in the romantic appeal of the cholerics. As has been outlined before, the cholerics are excellent students and excellent study partners. Phlegmatics, no doubt, could profit greatly from such companions.

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Schedule for Eastside Cinemas “Looney Toons: Back In Action” — PG, 5, 7:05 and 9:10 p.m.

“Master and Commander” — PG-13, 4:10, 6:50 and 9:30 p.m.

“Elf” — PG, 5, 7:10 and 9:20 p.m.

“Brother Bear” — G, 5, 7 and 9 p.m.

“Radio” — PG, 5 and 7:25 p.m.

“Texas Chainsaw Massacre” — R, 9:50 p.m.

Schedule for U4 Cinemas

“School of Rock” — PG-13, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

“Scary Movie 3” — PG-13, 5, 7 and 9 p.m.

“Matrix” — R, 7, 7:30, 9:30 and 10:15 p.m.