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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Maybe not. Since ‘Liber’ is Latin for book, you have proved that Dionysus is in every book ever written! (Depending on your standard of proof, of course...)</font></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Dionysus was also known as the "logos" or "word." There are more ways in which he "is in every book ever written," but they aren't germane to this discussion.</div><div>
<br></div><div>"Free Live Free" isn't simply a coincidence of names. The Dionysian cults were about "living free." Also from Free Live Free: Jim Stubb (a stubbe is a tree stump), Madame Serpentina (plenty of ties to Dionysus), Ozzie Barnes (agricultural reference) and Candy Garth (a garth is a field or pasture). Copious drinking is a theme of that novel as well: the "bottomless drinking glass."</div>
<div><br></div><div>It might help you to know that my methodology of literary interpretation is not wholly dependent on authorial intent. We see that "through a glass, darkly" as Robert Scholes put it. Pan/Dionysus is a pretty common mythological allusion, however, even in science fiction. Just look at <i>Dhalgren</i> and <i>This Immortal</i>.</div>
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