TR Pt 2 Ch1 Mr Pivner and Antaeus

[Edward A Moore]

CF Abel wrote earlier. . . ..

"As I read of Pivner, Heracles wrestling Antaios earlier on in the work keeps
coming to mind for some reason. Perhaps, "When the fight begins within
himself, a man's worth something" (Browning) and he doesn't wrestle all that
is "set-against" him, just "sags..untroubled?""



Great point and because the Pivner/Antaeus comparison fits in with the Inferno
I felt compelled to elaborate on it.

All these lonely people in this dreary chapter remind me a bit of
Dante wandering through hell
where these lost souls are caught up in their own cyclical types of misery
and isolation.

I do like images from Dante whether Dali, Dore, Delacroix, or William
Blake painted them.

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Antaeus is shown among the giants
half-frozen up to their torsos
at the edge of the Circle of Treachery.
http://www.google.com/search?q=antaeus+dante&hl=en&client=safari&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=ItgPTsHZG7Cx0AHBsIiTDg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAQ&biw=981&bih=661


http://docs.docstoc.com/pdf/262256/d8658330-f101-4e21-b8ff-13a26f448abf.pdf

Antaeus was used by ADM Hyman G. Rickover as a metaphor for engineers
who sometimes
become isolated from the world around them. "... the Devil is in the
details, but so is salvation."

ed