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Re: OT: White Goddess

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 2:24
Aidan Grey scripsit:

> A perfect example, to me, is his dependence on the > idea of an ancient triple-goddess (Maiden, Mother, and > Crone) which is really a very recent development > (1920's, but I forget the woman who started the idea.
It can't be *that* recent: Swinburne's "Hymn to Proserpine" definitely shows the concept.
> a square is a circle, with sufficient numbers of sides
Vice versa.
> Let me say it one more time: It is it's OWN MYTH, > unrelated to any of those sources he used in > fashioning it.
Well, if so, he was quite unaware of it of the time. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter