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AgProv2 Started conversation Oct 28, 2006
Just to say I have picked up this article and have started to edit and expand it.
Thr reference for the update is:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A16676517
If anyone wants to come in and co-edit/add/take away bits they are welcome
AgProv (The Eternal Researcher)
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Ekaterin Posted Oct 30, 2006
You asked whether there was a reference to a cup or grail in Moorcock's writings. Yes, another incarnation of the Eternal Champion, Von Bek, was on a quest to find the Holy Grail for the Devil (IIRC). I don't remember much else except that he picked up a young sidekick whose name began with S along the way - he thought S wouldn't be able to follow him where he was going, and when he did he believed that must mean that S was already damned like him.
Ekaterin.
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AgProv2 Posted Oct 31, 2006
Hi Ekaterin
Still looking for the von Bek references you kindly provided - apart from the name these are unfamiliar references to me.
I did find, on taking down and re-reading "Phoenix in Obsidian", that the whole of the latter part of the book is to do with what Wiccans call the "Great Rite" -the marriage of Athane and Chalice - and I thought "however did I miss this?"
Also, the second trilogy of Corum is a re-working of Irish and welsh myths and legends, so I'm sure there's a refeence to the Cauldron of Bran in there - the legendary Cauldron of Plenty that revives the dead and staves off famine, hopefully not both at once...
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Ekaterin Posted Oct 31, 2006
From Wikipedia, the titles of the Von Bek novels were:
The War Hound and the World's Pain
The Brothel in Rosenstrasse
The City in the Autumn Stars
Does that help at all? I believe that the Eternal Champion series was reprinted not too long ago and volume 1 of this reprinting contained all the Von Bek novels and stories.
Ekaterin.
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AgProv2 Posted Oct 31, 2006
hanks - I'll start hunting these!
Is the article geting too wordy and philosophical, btw? It feels like there's still a lot of ground to cover and there's already a forbidding amount of text for any Moorcock reader to get through!
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AgProv2 Posted Oct 31, 2006
(Right: I'll go back to annoying English Daily Mail Readers on the Jeremy Vine thread...)
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