There *may* be some good points in among the other stuff...
"I've started thinking about it as Angel represents the enlightenment (Kant) and Spike represents the polemical counterpunch and refutation to the enlightenment, which is the romantic movement.
This fits their historical dates, although Spike would be coming at the very end of the romantic period, but Angel is certainly well within the framework of the enlightenment period.
So you get, frex, determined reason against mystical intuition and Christian platonism."
" Angel. Spike.
Apollonian. Dionysian. "
" I think Spike embodies the old saw (attributed to everyone under the sun-- Jung, Blake, et al) that all great truths begin (or end-- again, google is ambivalent here :) in paradox. (And of course, it's a paradox that it can begin AND end in paradox, isn't it? Or that we can't be sure which.)"
...or not :)
-- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth
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