lots of stuff

Jeff Wilson · 12 Jul 2010, 19:48 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:48:33 -0500
Subject: (urth) lots of stuff
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On 7/12/2010 8:44 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
> 
>> Hm...let me make a distinction in terms: "chained to a rock", not
>> "marooned" there. And by associating Fr Inire with Fenrir, I do not
>> intend to say that Fr Inire was captured and forced to stay on Urth by
>> some means physical means
> 
> I like the possibility of Fenrir as a name origin for Fr. Inire too. I
> also agree that suggesting Inire could escape Urth whenever he wanted is
> not capturing the spirit of the suggestion. One might similarly suggest
> that Moses could have just gone down from Mt. Nebo and walked into The
> Promised Land whenvever he pleased despite what God told him.

That may have been a bit hasty, but the even though the fettered Fenrir
was tied to Gyoll, Inire is awfully mobile about his duty station and
commands means of egress and ingress - his position is more like
Heimdall guarding Bifrost and standing sentry over doings in distant
places on other worlds. It doesn't hurt that Heimdal is also the
"Father" of the classes of men, in disguise as another person yet!

But I don't think this makes Father Inire part Heimdall or part of
Fenrir the way Frog is very much part Mowgli, just that letting people
identify their concerns with an exalted parallel is what makes myth and
legend endure.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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