TAD - small, scattered thoughts

Andrew Bollen · 07 Feb 2003, 05:47 · from urth-v0302.mbox · original

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From: "Andrew Bollen" <abollen at internode.on.net>
Subject: (urth) TAD - small, scattered thoughts
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:47:24 +1100
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So I just finished reading TAD. There's the obvious hints at =
Tammuz/Attis/Osiris/Adonis (Green & all the other Billies) and =
Inanna/Cybele/Isis/Astarte (Lara). But as always, Wolfe's uses =
mythological themes & fragments for his own story, putting them together =
in different ways, rather than indulge in some boring reductionist =
retelling of the original.=20

I read it as using the dying/resurrected god theme, but specifically the =
period between death & resurrection - metaphorically, Green's foggy =
half-life, like Tammuz in the underworld, with Lara/Innanna drawing him =
out.  A bit like Eliot - Prufrock and partciularly The Wasteland - with =
similar linkages between the blighting of the world with the death of =
Tammuz etc & (Eliot & Wolfe's perception of) the wasteland of modern =
existence.=20

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metaphorically, Green's foggy half-life, like Tammuz in the underworld, =
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partciularly The Wasteland - with similar linkages between the =
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