280 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: Beowulf
The Symbolic World
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Is There a Duality to Cane?
Cane is both a kinslayer, but he's also a civilizational figure like he brings civilization. In the grandal poem, there isn't a sense that the that the giants represent an old civilization or that they represent, you know, a civilization that was there before us. But in some ways it does represent in general, when I talk about how the modern world is that is like a separation of heaven and earth. So the extremes manifest together,. this kind of extreme of tyranny and the extreme of chaos and broken reality, having together.
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