this is for the first two stories and the first 72 pages only. they all have been marked using the usual dog's ears thingy...
-"...The best joke is but a simple statement of truth"
-"...A joke indeed, but its a pity that men do not laugh at it more often"
-"...I'm sick of this prattle of gods and demons. Can no one be content simply to believe in men and what men could be if they ceased blaming their misfortunes on unseen gods rather than their own ineffectiveness? Life's not easy, it's a hard task to live it well and with grace - but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with dieties and water-nymphs!"
had an argument with my mother about this line. She says that this is precisely why men need gods and demons. Otherwise the stress would be too damn much, and the common man cannot bear the pressures of life. I agree with moorcock though, not out of fandom, or not out of mere fandom, but because I think that his is the more practical way to handle things, and in that way, there will be less need for the invention of dieties.
Then there is a funny line in the book, retaliating this idea
-".... What if there were super-natural beings? HOw would you fit them into your theory?"
"..."For you I will invent a death"
The lines are said by an evil devil-ahriman-satan-shaitan posessed alaxander the great
This is an interesting part of the book, describing a secret rite... probably the hieros gamos thing from the code.
"...It was night, silver with rime and moonlight... Simon located the doorwhich opened on reeking blackness. He entered it, and soon was creping downwards, down into the bowels of the hill... Now he heard a low chanting, half ecstatic moaning, half triumphant incantation. The sound grew louder, insinuationg itself into his ears until he was caught for a moment in the terrible evil ecstasy which the Cottyttian celebrants were feeling. HE controlled himself against an urge to flee, the even stronger urge to join them, and continued to advance, the rare steel sword gleaming in the fist... the chanting swelled into a great roar of evil joy and through it he heard a name repeated over and over: 'Cotys. Cotys. Cotys. Cotys. ' HE was half hipnotized by the sound, stumbled towards a curtain and wrenched it back. And retreated a pace at what he saw. "
Perhaps, very much like the description of a similiar scene from the code:
"...hearing the voices below her... and finding the hidden door. She inched down the stone staircase, one step at a time, into the basement grotto.,, She watched as the strangers swayed and chanted by flickering orange candles.... the voices accelerated now, louder, faster... [they chant about a woman] the chanting grew steady again. Accelerating. Thundering now. Faster. " Sophie, the heroine, recoils in disgust too, at what she sees
what is really suspicios is what comes next
orange light in both the cases. why orange?
and an old naked woman. Around sixty, In both.
Both have obviously tried to replicate from the same source, or Dan Brown has from Moorcock anyway, at the least.
From Earl Aubec:
"...Naked, on one side of the alter, Simon saw an old woman. HEr face was that of a woman of sixty... The candles spurted seething light and sent shadows leaping around the walls of the caverns. Then a peculiar golden orange brightness appeared at the top of the column..."
From the code
"...she watched as the strangers swayed and chanted by the flickering orange candles...straddling her grandfather was a naked woman wearing a white mask, her luxuriant hair flowing out behind it..."
But, it is shown in an evil light in Earl aubec, but with a positive light (almost, and later) by the da vinci code.
Curious eh? ah well. Back to the moorcockisms:
Have to look up the city of nineveh
to describe the intensity of a huge party
"...they celeberated, and celeberated as if they forgot they were celeberating..."
"...we don't know why we left, we don't know why we are going back... the first part of the question answers the second, doesen't it? We're going back in order to find out why weleft in the first place."
Ok for now. suddenly the queue has increased to 85552. Damn. This will never get done eh? four-five days will go, but I Will have the entire site on my hard-drive.
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