Posted by 79 at 1:45pm Sep 24 '09with a mix of jungian archetypes thrown in (creating [private]s then living through them when the real world/amber becomes too much?).
mix that with what corwin assumed - that Amber represents the base of reality - versus when he, quite literally, walked out of the cave to see the Primal Pattern.
i think, at least in the first five books (we'll get into courting our Chaos theories* from the latter five later?), that also represents a fairly good approach as to the similarity of corwin's Pattern. when inscribing his own Form in [private], he's still entrenched enough to stop breaking completely free, the way Dworkin did.
here's the question - is Dworkin more of an archetypal Ubermensch, or is does he represent more of a Socratic figure?
Dworkin/Socrates -> Oberon/Plato -> Corwin/Aristotle
to go even further out, one might suppose that [private] is Aristotle's student Alexander, uniting the two worlds under his rule. although i think that's probably just me getting carried away.
*I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING
mix that with what corwin assumed - that Amber represents the base of reality - versus when he, quite literally, walked out of the cave to see the Primal Pattern.
i think, at least in the first five books (we'll get into courting our Chaos theories* from the latter five later?), that also represents a fairly good approach as to the similarity of corwin's Pattern. when inscribing his own Form in [private], he's still entrenched enough to stop breaking completely free, the way Dworkin did.
here's the question - is Dworkin more of an archetypal Ubermensch, or is does he represent more of a Socratic figure?
Dworkin/Socrates -> Oberon/Plato -> Corwin/Aristotle
to go even further out, one might suppose that [private] is Aristotle's student Alexander, uniting the two worlds under his rule. although i think that's probably just me getting carried away.
*I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING
i'd go for platonic - 79