sphinx etc.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 09 May 2003, 15:45 · from urth-v0305.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <katbarx at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) sphinx etc.
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 08:45:00 -0700
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Snipping one line out of a fascinating set of notes,

>but still, what does "I am your mother, and your mother's mother" mean?!

It seems to me that if Wolfe is going to play around with Graves's concepts
and imagery _anywhere_ it would be in a story about ancient Greece, neh?
... perhaps this is an invocation/citation/statement of the all-female, the=20
one-
three Goddess ... in which case the Sphinx being Echidna's daughter doesn't
prevent her from being Hera's, since both Hera and Echidna are the Mother
... I think it's time for me to reread these; it's going to be a bit of a=20
wait for
Wizard-Knight anyway.

--Blattid

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