Short Story 19: King Under the Mountain

Marc Aramini · 16 Apr 2012, 13:04 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:04:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Short Story 19: King Under the Mountain
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1204161530040.4465 at orpheus.qimr.edu.au>
Message-ID: <1334581449.52113.YahooMailClassic at web161804.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

great point - I need to read Peer Gynt.  I agree - it's much more like a troll king or even the Trip Trap traki (self absorbed darkness dwelling being with a problem contextualizing external reality issues but access to real power)

--- On Sun, 4/15/12, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au> wrote:

> From: David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 19: King Under the Mountain
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 10:33 PM
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Marc Aramini
> wrote:
> 
> > COMMENTARY: This story is all about hubris
> > King in the mountain stories involve legendary heroes
> 
> I reckon the other type of king of the mountain is alluded
> to.? The Wikipedia article on _Peer Gynt_ has:
> 
> ...the question asked by the troll king: What is the
> difference between troll and man?.
> 
> The answer given by the Old Man of the Mountain is: "Out
> there, where sky shines, humans say: 'To thyself be true.'
> In here, trolls say: 'Be true to yourself and to hell with
> the world.'
> 
> Cheers, David Duffy.
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