SREVMar 13, 2012 07:02 PM
March 13th, 2012
Dear Alejo,
I recently read your book for a class on world literature. I found your chapters on historical events very interesting. I wanted to ask you why you took some time periods years apart and meshed them together? I know some places in the book are further apart on a historical standpoint than many historians would like them to be. I also found the chapters on animal guises (Metamorphoses) followed by the human guises (p 46) remarkable. Why did you make it as to where a human guise can be taken along with the animal guises? Are we truely all just spirits that live in human/animal/other forms? This makes me see all creations begin with a spirit that can shape-shift in the cycle of life. Lastly, Dagon (p 76) was a part of the read I enjoyed the most. I wanted to know though, why did you mean by "the Negroes were like the Philistines adoring Dagon inside the ark"? I see it as an historical point where the Philistines were worshipping this false God similar to your other depiction of Legba (p 168) that is prayed to. I hope that you may be of some help.
Sincerely,
Sara R. E. Vassey
Dear Alejo,
I recently read your book for a class on world literature. I found your chapters on historical events very interesting. I wanted to ask you why you took some time periods years apart and meshed them together? I know some places in the book are further apart on a historical standpoint than many historians would like them to be. I also found the chapters on animal guises (Metamorphoses) followed by the human guises (p 46) remarkable. Why did you make it as to where a human guise can be taken along with the animal guises? Are we truely all just spirits that live in human/animal/other forms? This makes me see all creations begin with a spirit that can shape-shift in the cycle of life. Lastly, Dagon (p 76) was a part of the read I enjoyed the most. I wanted to know though, why did you mean by "the Negroes were like the Philistines adoring Dagon inside the ark"? I see it as an historical point where the Philistines were worshipping this false God similar to your other depiction of Legba (p 168) that is prayed to. I hope that you may be of some help.
Sincerely,
Sara R. E. Vassey
