V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - a surprising parallel?

[alice wellintown]

Edmund Wilson used the title Axel's Castle for his study of early
Modernist literature.


see Monroe's posts on Tomorrow's Eve.

Axël:   Villiers began work on the piece around 1869 and had still not
put the finishing touches to it when he died. It was first published
posthumously in 1890. The play is heavily influenced by the Romantic
theatre of Victor Hugo, as well as Goethe's Faust and the music dramas
of Richard Wagner. The scene is set in Germany in 1828 and opens on
Christmas Eve in the convent of Saint Apollodora, where the rich
heiress Sara de Maupers is just about to take the veil. But when the
archdeacon asks Sara whether she is ready to accept "light, hope and
life", she replies "no".




On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> p 340, from Fausto II's journals during the War:
>
> O Malta of the Knights of St. John!  History's serpent is one; what
> matter where on her body we be.  Here in this wretched tunnel we are
> the Knights and the Giaours; we are L'Isle-Adam and his ermine arm,
> and his maniple on a field of blue sea and gold sun...
>
>
> --------------
> L'isle Adam and his ermine arm:
> http://www.crwflags.com/FOTW/flags/smom_521.html says that the coat of
> arms of this 16th -century repeller of the Turk includes "a dexter arm
> clothed with a scarf ermine"
>
> the surprising parallel that cropped up for me was
>
> (p6) "A miasma of evil suddenly enveloped Profane from behind; an arm
> fell like a sack of spuds across his shoulder and into his peripheral
> vision crept a beer glass surrounded by a large muss, fashioned
> ineptly from diseased baboon fur."
>