The Duck and The Golem

[Dave Monroe]

See, e.g., ...

Idel, Moshe.  Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical
   Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid.
   Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.

Scholem, Gershom.  "The Idea of the Golem."
   On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism.  Trans.
   Ralph Mannheim.  New York: Schocken, 1969.
   158-204.

Sherwin, Byron L. The Golem Legend: Origins and
   Implications.  Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1985.
 
Wiener, Norbert.  God and Golem, Inc.: A Comment
   on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on
   Religion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1963. 

As well as ...

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Golem" (1958) ...

http://esag.harvard.edu/falk/interests/poetry/elgolem.html

Michael Chabon, "The Recipe for Life" (2000) ...

http://www.michaelchabon.com/golem.html

Kay E. Vandergrift, "Background on the Golem Legends"
...

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/golem/backgroundgolem.html

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/golem/golemwebsites.html

Brian L. Lancaster, "The Golem as a Transpersonal
Image" ...

http://www.thehope.org/GOLEM1.htm

http://www.thehope.org/GOLEM2.htm

Frank Cebulla, "Der Golem in Geschichte, Mythos und
Magie" ...

http://www.equinox-net.de/Golem/golt1.htm

http://www.equinox-net.de/Golem/golt2.htm

http://www.equinox-net.de/Golem/golt3.htm

Nicolas Simard, "Le mobile du Golem" ...

http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/mts123/nicolas.html

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> The duck, we could say, starts off as a bunch of
> parts assembled, but there is more to the assembly
> than parts, so like Slothrop and V and Barrington,
> the more the duck comes to function as an abstract
> entity (and a golem, and I'll have to define the
> golem because I know this term has many meanings,
> including several in M&D) the more inanimate and
> non-human it becomes.

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