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Phallos Dionysus

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While intending to write an appreciation of Phallos Dionysus,a novel with a serious mixture of an ethos of an ancient classical Greek culture,and wildly funny parallelisms to the modern day,I came across a quote from Tom Wolfe,the novelist that would seem to give Phallos Dionysus some topicality,albeit fictional. I quote:"Instead of striding out with a Dionysian yea-saying,as Neitzche would have put it,into the raw raucous,lust-soaked rout that throbs with amped-up octophonic tympanum all around them,our old lions had withdrawn,retreated,shielding their eyes against the light,and turned inward to such subject matter as their own little crevicei.e."the literary world" .The modern novel is dying not of obsolescence but of anoxeria.It needs food!It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America like moviemakers do,with a ravenous curiosity and to go out among 270 million souls and look them in the eye"

While intending to write an appreciation of Phallos Dionysus,a novel with a serious mixture of an ethos of an ancient classical Greek culture,and wildly funny parallelisms to the modern day,I came across a quote from Tom Wolfe,the novelist that would seem to give Phallos Dionysus some topicality,albeit fictional. I quote:"Instead of striding out with a Dionysian yea-saying,as Neitzche would have put it,into the raw raucous,lust-soaked rout that throbs with amped-up octophonic tympanum all around them,our old lions had withdrawn,retreated,shielding their eyes against the light,and turned inward to such subject matter as their own little crevicei.e."the literary world" .The modern novel is dying not of obsolescence but of anoxeria.It needs food!It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America like moviemakers do,with a ravenous curiosity and to go out among 270 million souls and look them in the eye"

While intending to write an appreciation of Phallos Dionysus,a novel with a serious mixture of an ethos of an ancient classical Greek culture,and wildly funny parallelisms to the modern day,I came across a quote from Tom Wolfe,the novelist that would seem to give Phallos Dionysus some topicality,albeit fictional. I quote:"Instead of striding out with a Dionysian yea-saying,as Neitzche would have put it,into the raw raucous,lust-soaked rout that throbs with amped-up octophonic tympanum all around them,our old lions had withdrawn,retreated,shielding their eyes against the light,and turned inward to such subject matter as their own little crevicei.e."the literary world" .The modern novel is dying not of obsolescence but of anoxeria.It needs food!It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America like moviemakers do,with a ravenous curiosity and to go out among 270 million souls and look them in the eye"

While intending to write an appreciation of Phallos Dionysus,a novel with a serious mixture of an ethos of an ancient classical Greek culture,and wildly funny parallelisms to the modern day,I came across a quote from Tom Wolfe,the novelist that would seem to give Phallos Dionysus some topicality,albeit fictional. I quote:"Instead of striding out with a Dionysian yea-saying,as Neitzche would have put it,into the raw raucous,lust-soaked rout that throbs with amped-up octophonic tympanum all around them,our old lions had withdrawn,retreated,shielding their eyes against the light,and turned inward to such subject matter as their own little crevicei.e."the literary world" .The modern novel is dying not of obsolescence but of anoxeria.It needs food!It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America like moviemakers do,with a ravenous curiosity and to go out among 270 million souls and look them in the eye"

This is a fascinating novel for lovers of mythology and fantasy,an unsusual and effective combination of ancient ambiance and the modern day, both joined in Bacchic joy and bacchanal in a surprise to the reader at the end when Demetrius-Dionysus returns and leaves a gift on the beach at the island of Corfu.The novel holds your attention consistently. Plot and theme are daringly original in a daring novel, strongly dramatized by remarkable characters,the eternal Greek God Dionysus in the form of Priapus,and the twentytwo Wellesley and Smith college field hockey teams who become devotees,as well as a lady Attorney General who cancels a cult prosecution as a believer,--all modern bacchantes brandishing hockey sticks as thyruses to protect Demetrius-Dionysus and dancing to the ecstatic beat of dithyrambic music wearing hockey cleats.The novel itself has a strong voice,musical and rhythmic,in a lyrical mode.Evoi' Life'