Robin wrote: >> And if we're really passing texts, Book Five of The
Grunt wasn't even
*written* by Rabelais, let alone translated by Urquhart and revised by
Mottuex.<<
But that doesn't affect the implication of that Latin quote, does it?
>>I just cot up with this, and it is, of course, utter bullshit.
A daemon is (as Martin perfectly bloody well knows) an immaterial
creature with a status somewhere between a god and a beast.<<
The EB says daimon, (from Gr. daimon), was a general term among the Greeks for a supernatural power...(blah blah): "The Christians, therefore, attributed the actions of the pagan gods to daemons identified as fallen angels." Therefore the Ghost could be a daemon out to fool & damn Hamlet. QED.
And in Jung it has another meaning, not to mention Philip Pullman. You're just a calvinist absolutist knave, sir.
jaywalker, formerly about-to-be-published Bad Boy :-P
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