Like a good Neighbor

David Stockhoff · 21 Nov 2011, 16:24 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:24:44 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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On 11/20/2011 10:04 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Were you unaware of James' theory that Silk is combined with the 
> essence of a Neighbor (who are faerie and fauns). If you grasp that 
> Silk was possessed by The Outsider, who is akin to Dionysus, you 
> wouldn't struggle and become so frustrated by it. Nobody expects you 
> to understand the Dionysisan connection to the trinity but 
> Neighbor=faun is perfectly within your abilities. I swear.

For that matter, it is really easy to imagine the Green Man (Man of 
Green?) in his natural habitat, behaving very much like a faun. He's not 
quite a fairy, as those people are beings of power and pomp. Fauns have 
none. But he lives in the green wood like a being more of it than in it.

Neighbors do seem to be a little of both. I'm skeptical of conflating 
them, but fauns are plainly an important literary forerunner to the Sun 
Cycle.

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