Are the Neighbors REALLY the Neighbors?

Lee Berman · 15 Feb 2011, 17:06 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:06:35 -0500
Subject: (urth) Are the Neighbors REALLY the Neighbors?
Message-ID: <SNT123-W2653D606C043EBE1AF6FF8CFD30 at phx.gbl>

>James Wynn: Incidentally, Latro's curse from the gods is also said to be a blessing. 
>It causes him to lose his memory but also enables him to see the divine 
>and be a mediator between the divine and the mundane--touch the divine 
>and it becomes visible in the mundane realm. In other words, "divine 
>curse" and "divine blessing" are explained to be just alternate terms 
>for "touched by a god".

Isn't that the way of it, yes. Seems it doesn't matter if it is Hercules, Moses,
Zoroaster or Jesus, the touch of God is both a blessing and curse on a man's life. 
Apologies for irreverence but I can imagine the same attributions being placed on the 
lives of 20th Century heroes like Gandhi or MLK jr. 2000 years from now.

>If one presumes that Silk was a clone of Typhon, Barnacles-as-Midas 
>works perfectly.

I shouldn't need explanation for this but I might. IIRC, in your theory, 
Midas figures into the Spring Wind/Typhon legend perhaps with Alexander's
story as a mediating influence. But I think the connection isn't the 
obvious one involving Alexander's cutting of Midas' Gordian Knot. How does
the connection work?

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