From: "Andrew Bollen" 
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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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=20
uses mythological themes & fragments for his own story, putting =
them=20
together in different ways, rather than indulge in some boring =
reductionist=20
retelling of the original. 
 
I read it as using the =
dying/resurrected god theme,=20
but specifically the period between death & resurrection - =

metaphorically, Green's foggy half-life, like Tammuz in the underworld, =
with=20
Lara/Innanna drawing him out.  A bit like Eliot - Prufrock and =

partciularly The Wasteland - with similar linkages between the =
blighting of=20
the world with the death of Tammuz etc & (Eliot & Wolfe's =
perception of)=20
the wasteland of modern existence. 
 
 

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