The Second Apocalypse
Earwa => General Earwa => Topic started by: MrGrax on April 17, 2014, 05:09:45 pm
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In my reading of Old English poetry and sagas I remember at one point hearing that phrase "death came whirling down" repeated in a similar manner to when R. Scott Bakker used it in his combat passages.
It may have been the Battle of Malden that I remember reading it. Does anyone know if Bakker drew influence from that old style of storytelling?
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Welcome to the Second Apocalypse v3, MrGrax.
I believe all such whirling or swirling references should be attributed to Homer (the man or the oral collective):
"and the dark came swirling down"
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Well that would be in keeping with the general aura of ancient cultures which he works to cultivate! Thanks very much. I am just a huge nerd for intertextual connections.
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Truth shines, death swirls.
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Hey MrGrax! "Death cam swirling down" -- another No-God reference?!?!
Growing up in Arkansas and Texas, this was simply Tornadoes.
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Hey MrGrax! "Death cam swirling down" -- another No-God reference?!?!
Growing up in Arkansas and Texas, this was simply Tornadoes.
It's funny but I find few natural phenomenons more terrifying than high speed winds... fitting that the No-God mirrors this (for whatever reason? why does the No-God cause a vortex of wind anyways?).
Maybe it's because nothing says you're made of a bag of meat and bone until you get tossed a couple hundred meters like a ragdoll.
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Maybe it's because nothing says you're made of a bag of meat and bone until you get tossed a couple hundred meters like a ragdoll.
One of my favorite short stories. Thanks for the reminder :D :
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
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Hey MrGrax! "Death cam swirling down" -- another No-God reference?!?!
Growing up in Arkansas and Texas, this was simply Tornadoes.
It's funny but I find few natural phenomenons more terrifying than high speed winds... fitting that the No-God mirrors this (for whatever reason? why does the No-God cause a vortex of wind anyways?).
Maybe it's because nothing says you're made of a bag of meat and bone until you get tossed a couple hundred meters like a ragdoll.
I have no idea why the No-God occupies a whirlwind, but it is cool that the NG is in the peaceful eye of the storm while the rest of the world goes to shit. Maybe in TUC we'll get a scene where Kellhus penetrates the swirling wind and floats in stillness and quiet before the carapace. COMMENCE THE ULTIMATE BAKKER CONVERSATION
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I love that story! Do you know any other good Bisson? I don't know anything about his stuff besides Meat. There's a pretty good video of the story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE