(urth) Memorare
Matthew King
automatthew at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 08:20:36 PDT 2007
On Apr 4, 2007, at 8:51 AM, James B. Jordan wrote:
> I've been away so much that I may have missed it, but have we
> discussed "Memorare" here yet?
>
> Spoiler space
>
>
> I was struck by the fact that Wolfe makes himself the godplaying
> dead man. It would be easy to have the statue be that of "Richard
> Nixon" or "Hitler" or someone else, but Wolfe takes upon himself
> the role of god-playing tyrant. He seems to be saying that he's as
> potentially evil as anyone else. Salvation is only by grace, as the
> prayers and title indicate.
I wondered if anyone else would think the statue was of Wolfe. Is
the GW in Memorare the first head of Cerberus? That seems like too
much of a closed circle.
Matthew
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