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

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

Isn't he describing waves?
dimwittedly,
cfa

> I hope it's permissible to add a question and observationn to an
> already-excellent list.
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> Chapter 11
> 108.9-12 "...behold a Company of Giant rob'd Beings, risen incalculably far
> away over the Horizon, bound this way upon matters forever unexplain'd,
> moving blind and remorseless across the Sea, as if the Island did not
> exist."
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> 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.
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> One possible connection that comes to mind, far-fetched perhaps but perhaps
> not given the other Chinese references in M & D, is to the company of "8
> celestial beings crossing the ocean"  (in the pingyin romanization:  "ba
> xian guo hai") a popular tale (every child knows it) of Chinese mythology.
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