TAD - small, scattered thoughts

Alice K. Turner · 08 Feb 2003, 02:22 · from urth-v0302.mbox · original

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From: "Alice K. Turner" <aturner6 at nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) TAD - small, scattered thoughts
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:22:28 -0500
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Another useful way to look at it is as a take on the Nixon White House, =
set in a decade that is probably the defining era of serious feminism =
(history makes strange bedfellows). The conceit is to merge this with =
Kafka's -Castle-. Whether this conceit is successful or not will depend =
on you, the reader. Me, I think not, but will not argue. Anyway, it's =
pretty clear that Kafka's Klamm is meant to be Kissinger here, North is =
an amalgam of Ollie North and the rest of the Watergate crew. Etc.

-alga
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Andrew Bollen=20
  To: urth at urth.net=20
  Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:47 AM
  Subject: (urth) TAD - small, scattered thoughts

  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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Another useful way to look at it is as =
a take on=20
the Nixon White House, set in a decade that is probably the =
defining=20
era of serious feminism (history makes strange bedfellows). The =
conceit is=20
to merge this with Kafka's -Castle-. Whether this conceit is =
successful or=20
not will depend on you, the reader. Me, I think not, but will not argue. =
Anyway,=20
it's pretty clear that Kafka's Klamm is meant to be Kissinger here, =
North is an=20
amalgam of Ollie North and the rest of the Watergate crew. =
Etc.

-alga

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From:=20
  Andrew Bollen 
  To: urth at urth.net 
  Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 =
12:47=20
  AM
  Subject: (urth) TAD - small, =
scattered=20
  thoughts

  So I just finished reading =
TAD. There's the=20
  obvious hints at Tammuz/Attis/Osiris/Adonis (Green & all the =
other=20
  Billies) and Inanna/Cybele/Isis/Astarte (Lara). But as always, Wolfe's =

  uses mythological themes & fragments for his own story, =
putting them=20
  together in different ways, rather than indulge in some boring=20
  reductionist retelling of the original. 

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

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