That's a fantastic insight. I never though about him putting in those images to compare w/ Scythian relics. I thought he was using those words, b/c they convey strong images, to tie his allegory to our modern American empire. I thought he was just making it clear that we're the exiting empire, this is our Apocrypha, and that it's nothing new.
Also, I thought the line, 'routed by some Achaeans' was 'routed by summations.' I'm clearly wrong, but it just made sense to me that those words would follow 'archers of an after thought' and would refer to the idea this ancient empire that lasted thousands of years is now summed up, if even mentioned at all. Tie that theme into the earlier references and those Halliburton attache cases and scotch gaurd macintoshes will be equally irrelevant in history. It's hard to think Halliburton w/out thinking Iraq and the scotch guard macintoshes just seemed to me to be an kernal of an image of capitalism and consumerism, all of which will be equally irrelevant in the scope of history.
That's a fantastic insight. I never though about him putting in those images to compare w/ Scythian relics. I thought he was using those words, b/c they convey strong images, to tie his allegory to our modern American empire. I thought he was just making it clear that we're the exiting empire, this is our Apocrypha, and that it's nothing new.
Also, I thought the line, 'routed by some Achaeans' was 'routed by summations.' I'm clearly wrong, but it just made sense to me that those words would follow 'archers of an after thought' and would refer to the idea this ancient empire that lasted thousands of years is now summed up, if even mentioned at all. Tie that theme into the earlier references and those Halliburton attache cases and scotch gaurd macintoshes will be equally irrelevant in history. It's hard to think Halliburton w/out thinking Iraq and the scotch guard macintoshes just seemed to me to be an kernal of an image of capitalism and consumerism, all of which will be equally irrelevant in the scope of history.
can you tell I like this song???