Re: OT: White Goddess
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 9, 2001, 11:21 |
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, David Peterson wrote:
> In a message dated 4/8/01 5:09:34 PM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:
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> << I'm reading Robert Graves' _The White Goddess_ right now and I have to
> ask, before I go crazy, as far as historical/anthropological/linguistic
> "fact" is he on crack, or am I a dull uneducated unpoetic soul (always
> possible :-p), or are there big gaping holes of logic? I think I've
[snip]
>
> Well, it is Robert Graves, not real literature. What'd you expect?
<rueful look> As a SF/F reader I tend to be more inclusive with
"literature" than most, but I honestly went into this book knowing very
little about Graves other than that he writes poetry and historical?
fiction?--I picked it up because Joan D. Vinge mentions it as an
inspiration for _The Snow Queen_ (a beautiful SF novel whose structure is
based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale of the same title, I think)
and I think I've vaguely heard of fantasy authors also citing it as an
influence.
YHL