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A still-resonating ‘dying fall’ of an ending, still reaching toward its own gestalt from these many barely graspable aspects, a gestalt within the book’s overall gestalt, an overall gestalt which is also still forming within as well as beyond the traditional shape of Pan himself.The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
The idea of liminality permeates and dominates this book - the border between nature and civilization and the conflict between them are of central focus. This is very understandable as Pan is an archetype of the world that once was, a symbol of the wild. There are great stories in here, but the fact that they bear a lot of thematic similarities makes the book better suited to a slow, relaxed reading (I read it rather quickly and some stories seem to have blended with other in my mind). The two t...
This is one of three hundred copies printed.
Firstly, as you would expect from Egaeus, the book itself is a beautiful piece of work.A collection of short stories, essays and poems relating to Pan, this must surely be one of the best books I have ever read.It's the stories that do it for me, of course. They are all very varied, bringing to light different nuances of the subject. But to my delight, there's a subtlety about them all. They all revolve around feeling, atmosphere and intuition, there is little in the way of overt supernaturalism...
