Subject: Re: TWIN PEAKS IS BACK!!
From: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Date: 1991-02-27, 13:42
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

from Spenser's the Fairy Queen:
From: jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob S Weinstein)
Path: phoenix!jacobw

Then groning deepe, "Nor damned Ghost," quoth he.
        "Nor guilefull sprite to thee these wordes doth speake,
        But once a man...now a tree...
        A cruell witch... hath thus transformed."
(I've left out a lot, but you get the idea.)
        The footnote to my edition says, "The motif of a man imprisoned
in a tree derives from Virgil (Aeneid 3.27-42) and is used by Ariosto
(Orlando Furiouso 6.26-53).
        I don't have a copy of the Aeneid of the Furiouso. Clearly,
this is significant. Can anyone track this down further?

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