![]() ![]() After the true hero arrives sprouting fiery wings, to deal the death blow, he shows Grendel the reality of both destruction and rebirth. And Grendel continues to observe the illusions of bards, kings, heroes, and soldiers, occasionally eating one. He hears an old priest put in a word for God as unity of discords, where nothing is lost. Itc listens to a wheezing bore with scales and coils, a pedantic Lucifer, declaim on the relentless complexity of cosmic accident. But Grendel, the essence of primal violence, is also a learning creature. As in the original, Grendel is a bewildering combination of amorphous threats and grisly specifics - he bellows in the wilds and crunches through hapless inhabitants of the meadhall. Here he has used as a means of discovering man's unsavory ways that muzziest of monsters, Grendel, from the Beowulf chronicle. As in Resurrection (1966) and The Wreckage of Agathon (1970) Gardner demonstrates his agility at juggling metaphysical notions while telling a diverting tale. ![]()
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