h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

One wonders if anyone bothers to read Graves' introduction to the WG. It isn't an academic work, it is a poetic one, mainly to a riddle. Excuse me, but I didn't see any academics take on any bardic riddles in the last 200 years. Try memorizing a lengthy piece of poetry, and how that affects thinking. Those who have can appreciate Graves in a manner quite different than historical nitpickers. Given, within the WG, are several pranks laid out for particular targets. Idries Shah did the same thing in several of his books.

>>Given, within the WG, are several pranks laid out for particular targets.<<

Malgwyn, can you explain that some more?

I'm referring to various Modernist poets and writers (and certainly their readers); Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Eliot. Lawrence's arguments in his introduction to Frederick Carters Dragon of the Apocalypse for example.

I certainly didn't understand what Graves was getting at in the book. I said in the article it was either a work of genius or madness. I was being charitable - I think it was madness myself.

I take this article out of the workshop since I don't really know much about the Godess.

Graves does answer the riddles, which were just moldering in the Red Book. The WG is a small sample of his work, and one that was continued by several other authors and poets, Sylvia Plath being a shining example. A perfect madness, contagious and fatal.