A reader who is an expert on the OT has brought me up to speed on current thinking about the dating of Exodus vs. Hosea, and says that it's possible that as we have them Hosea is older than Exodus, and that the early story does have Jacob wrestling with an angel, not a man. I am interested (for reasons that I hope will become clear later) in the Exodus version, but I thought I'd better correct the record here.
It is quite something when the relation or identity absences come into Edgar as a gestalt of universality and vital force to emulsify and distill all filial relationships down to a full-time earthly presence; how shamanic energy indeed catches the spirit, (*functions without names and forms). Taussig and his cornwolf, Electra's blood libations -- seem apt metonymy for this substituted knowledge and revisionist spin-off of family violence or family drama.
A reader who is an expert on the OT has brought me up to speed on current thinking about the dating of Exodus vs. Hosea, and says that it's possible that as we have them Hosea is older than Exodus, and that the early story does have Jacob wrestling with an angel, not a man. I am interested (for reasons that I hope will become clear later) in the Exodus version, but I thought I'd better correct the record here.
It is quite something when the relation or identity absences come into Edgar as a gestalt of universality and vital force to emulsify and distill all filial relationships down to a full-time earthly presence; how shamanic energy indeed catches the spirit, (*functions without names and forms). Taussig and his cornwolf, Electra's blood libations -- seem apt metonymy for this substituted knowledge and revisionist spin-off of family violence or family drama.