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Subject: Re: Metamorphoses, by Emily Short (II)
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From: Alex Schroeder <kensanata@yahoo.com>
Date: 03 Apr 2001 00:30:10 +0200
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emshort@mindspring.com writes:

> Alex Schroeder <kensanata@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Some comments: While wandering through the tower, I thought that the
> > motivation for some of the rooms was unclear -- it didn't make sense
> > in the same way that wandering through a house or a castle makes.  Why
> > this?  Why that?  Why the symmetry?
>
> Because this is not a part of the physical world, but a symbolic one in
> which association and opposition of concepts is the organizing feature.

Hehe, maybe I'll have to play it again.  :)  I must have missed some
of these things.  I see the elements, I see the weirdness of the
place, and it really was a great game.  When I crossed the lake I felt
like Charon had just ferried me across the river Styx.  And then,
crystals, light, magic furnaces.  And, oddly, a collection of stuffed
animals.  Later, elements, associations with them, water, and earth,
fire burning up above, and, oddly yet again, the puppets.  I guess the
stuffed animals and puppets just reminded of a crazy magician on his
island -- Prospero in Shakespeare's Tempest, for example.  And the
rest of the rooms reminded me the product of a powerful mastermind,
setting up a little collection, forgetting about it and leaving it all
behind.  For me to explore.

Just felt that I needed to explain my comment some more.  Reading your
answer above, however, I'll replay it another day.  Your post
encourages me to go looking for more.  :)

Alex.
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	-- Turkish proverb
