Typhon's nature

David Stockhoff · 17 Oct 2011, 14:01 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:01:03 -0400
Subject: (urth) Typhon's nature
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On 10/17/2011 8:00 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* Lee Berman <mailto:severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
> > Actually I think Gerry, in a moment of weakness, did concede that 
> the Bird-of-
> > the-Woods story did map nicely to the Roman Rhea Silvia myth. 
> Perhaps the heat
> > of recent battle has driven him back to his fortified position of 
> denial of any
> > and all mythological significance in Wolfe's work.
>
> Where did I ever dispute that that story is a mash-up of the story of 
> Romulus and that of the Jungle Book, perhaps filtered through the 
> perspective of generations unfamiliar with real animals, like those 
> people confined in the Antechamber who displayed very similar 
> misapprehensions? If I recall correctly, my objection was to theories 
> that the story was all about Typhon, because of course BotNS will 
> never be ?understood? until it is boiled down to some little 
> self-referential tangle with three or fewer actual characters...
Then you're objecting to something no one said.


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