TFv04 CH 18 Hades (annotated)

Annotations for Hades of Hades. The hadestest of all.

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**Aimé Césaire**

(26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone and French poet, author
and politician from Martinique. He was
"one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone
literature". He wrote such works as Une Tempête, a response to
Shakespeare's play The Tempest, and Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on
Colonialism), an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the
colonized.

**quote**

from Notebook of a Return to My Native Land was a suggested reading for
Volume 3. It continues: … and heard a river of turtledoves and savannah clover
rising on the far side of disaster;

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**once upon a time…**

a strange change of style

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**Hades**

god of the underworld, which eventually took his name. Hades was often
portrayed with his three-headed guard dog Cerberus (evoking Cynegetics from
Ratings).

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**smoke**

burning forest?

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**pas de chat**

a ballet leap from one foot to the other in which the feet are drawn up
and the knees are bent so that the legs form a diamond

## Page 520

**wasn’t fall starting soon?**

foreshadowing of events taking
a darker turn? What will happen in 22 September?

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**Sava**

?

## Page 524

**Zuhair Murad**

Lebanese fashion designer

**Nay Goldman**

probably not a real person

**Alessandra Ferri**

Italian prima ballerina

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**Degas**

painter, sculptor

**ice and fire**

a nod to A Song of Ice and Fire, a fantasy book saga adapted as Game of Thrones?

**brimstone**

Sulfur, especially considered as a component of the torments of hell in Christianity.

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**something from a book**

House of Leaves? „Myth is Redwood.“

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**absent father, Zeus**

Dov

## Page 533

**Demeter**

Astair

**Hecate**

variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, light,
magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy,
and sorcery. She also closely parallels the Roman goddess Trivia, with whom she
was identified in Rome.

**Trivia**

in Roman mythology was the goddess who "haunted
crossroads, graveyards, and was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft, she
wandered about at night and was seen only by the barking of dogs who told of
her approach.

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**BO**

body odor

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**Melinoe and Zagreus**

nymph or goddess invoked in one of the Orphic Hymns and
propitiated as a bringer of nightmares and madness. The name also appears on a
metal tablet in association with Persephone. The hymns, of uncertain date but
probably composed in the 2nd or 3rd century AD. In the hymn, Melinoë has
characteristics that seem similar to Hecate and the Erinyes, and the name is
sometimes thought to be an epithet of Hecate. The terms in which Melinoë is
described are typical of moon goddesses in Greek poetry. Melinoe is depicted in
numerous different ways in modern society. The most common interpretation of
Melinoe is that she was either the daughter of Zeus and Persephone or the
daughter of Hades and Persephone. However many believe that she, along with
Hades, Zagreus and numerous other gods, was a victim of syncretism. (Wikipedia)

**Zagreus**

was sometimes identified with a god worshipped by the
followers of Orphism, the “first Dionysus”, a son of Zeus and Persephone, who
was dismembered by the Titans and reborn. However, in the earliest mention of
Zagreus, he is paired with Gaia (Earth) and called the “highest” god [of the
underworld?] and Aeschylus links Zagreus with Hades, possibly as Hades' son, or
Hades himself. Noting “Hades’ identity as Zeus’ katachthonios alter ego”,
Timothy Gantz thought it “likely” that Zagreus, originally, perhaps the son of
Hades and Persephone, later merged with the Orphic Dionysus, the son of Zeus
and Persephone (Wikipedia)

**Melinoe & Zagreus, Demeter**

MZD again hiding in plain sight

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**Galvadyne**

why she thinks about Galvadyne at this moment? Is Galvadyne
Hades? Hate?

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**seal, Momma Orca**

evokes Lexi the Polar Bear from V3 (even though that was a bear)

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**by whom?**

Hades? Redwood? Danielewski?

**Ich würde nur an einen gott glauben der zu tanzen verstünde.**

'I would only believe in a god who could dance.' - Friedrich Nietzsche

## Page 550

**chinese**
 吾不能见。- “I cannot see”
 此人失。- “This person lost”

## Page 551

**chinese**

凡事皆觉远 - “Everything feels far away”
 黑暗止于勇者。- “Darkness braved ceases to be darkness”

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**french - "Maudits, les noms qu'Adam donna Le monde emmêlent De myosotis-"**

Cursed, the names that Adam gave the world tangle forget-me-not

**spanish**

I sentenced him who was me.

**chinese**

“Darkness braved ceases to be darkness”

**Notice Astair's conversation with Marisol about the cat in seizure.**

## Reading Guide Questions

***Hades is both the ruler and the realm of the dead. What ghosts are (re)visited in TFv4? Do you think the play Hades is a metaphor for something in the novel? If Astair is Demeter and Xanther is Persephone, who is Hades? What is the relation between Hades and cages, one of the keywords for this volume?***