MDMD(4) - Giant rob'd Beings (108.9-12)

[Vaska]

Doug Millison writes:

>Chapter 11
>108.9-12 "...behold a Company of Giant rob'd Beings, [SNIP] 
>
>Any suggestions about who or what these Beings represent? They remind me
>somehow of the beings (are they angels? I don't remember exactly where this
>is in GR) in GR. Here, in M&D, the characterizations "blind and
>remorseless" and "matters forever unexplain'd" make them seem sinister.

Maybe it's just because I'm largely ignorant of Chinese mythology, and of
the story Doug goes on to mention in his post, but yes, these sinister
"Giant rob'd Beings" do remind me of the Rilkean angels in _GR_: Rilke's
angels were also pitiless and destructive.  

Vaska