From: "Daniel Fusch" <dfusch@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Fairy Tale alchemy
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 11:14:14 PST

alga and mantis,

I concede the point. You're right--I hadn't looked that carefully at the 
sequence at Baldanders' castle. The connection to Faust is definitely 
there--with the Homunculus, after all.

I suppose I hadn't really connected alchemy with the Gothic tradition 
before--maybe "Frankenstein" is the meeting point, then.

So...if Typhon is--in one sense--an alchemical allusion, what is the 
significance of the allusion? Is Typhon representative of a desire to 
perfect the human form (by defeating death)?

--Daniel

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