Peace, Jurgen, Nessus

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 24 Dec 2013, 19:32 · from 2013-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:32:47 -0800
Subject: (urth) Peace, Jurgen, Nessus
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Heh. Jurgen's sword is his penis.


On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Tried to send this message a few times but it hasn't gone through.  Still
> looking up references in Peace, at one point Lois Arbuthnot says that
> Weer's sword is not like Jurgen's.  (it is a secret sword, a pocket knife)
> so I started to read Jurgen, which is dedicated to burton rascoe.  Not
> quite enough to get the name Roscoe which Blaine uses for James McAfee, but
> within three pages several things struck me: talk of Jurgen as a symbol of
> the sun, and then talk of the Nessus shirt. The centaur Nessus allows
> Jurgen to talk to his earliest love when she is young before her
> betrayals.  Time shifting of perceptions going on as well there.
>
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