Winds of Fate Ch. 24 Graves White Goddess & Ella Wheeler Wilcox ...

[Mark Kohut]

The wind that blows the ship to ground in The Tempest---that
"O Brave New World" tale is from the Southwest, from the Gulf,
the tropics and expectantly propitious to Elizabethans in the early 1600s..

Effectively, the  opposite of The North Wind.............


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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, December 19, 2010 10:37:53 AM
Subject: Winds of Fate Ch. 24 Graves White Goddess & Ella Wheeler Wilcox ...

In Ch. 24 of _The White Goddess_ Graves stencilizes winds from Greece
to Ireland.

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails,
And Not the gales,
That tell us the way to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate;
As we voyage along through life,
'Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Also, Marcea Eliade discusses the Herero and how the Father God is
distant while the winds blow.