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.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter