Is the dreamy encounter with Bast just sex? Or, is it a way of pushing Shadow deeper into belief? Wednesday’s orchestrating every last little thing. ![]() Ibis is busy keeping Shadow in the dark at the behest of Mr. Ancient Egypt, cats, the Underworld, Cairo in Illinois- all that. Makes sense Bastet is hanging out at the funeral parlour with Mr. When Shadow wakes there’s a cat at the edge of his bed. Bast is Bastet- her cat-like identity shows in the way she licks the wounds of Shadow, her scratches in his back, and those yellowed eyes. “ My wife, she‘ ll kill you,” he tells her. He hears the future, the digitisation of music- like dubstep, for instance- and in the midst of the procession Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) emerges. When the father dies, the son sits at his funeral and listens to the music of Bach being played by a string quartet. Doesn’t particularly impress his father, who still sees it as the postmodern world pulling his son further away. He takes out his old Bach books and starts to use his own digital work to compose new music. A distinct separation between the worship of the old and of the new.Įxcept when the boy’s at college, he hears a young woman playing Bach, and suddenly a feeling dawns. Dad talks about “ the rising notes of joy” and “ the grief” in Bach’s music. His father turns off his music and puts on Bach. Skip ahead a little while to 1987 and the boy’s playing Game Boy. When he’s done playing, he quickly packs things up and goes back to Pong. His fingers fly over the keys while his father listens along and the metronome keeps the beat. He’s soon interrupted by his father to practice the piano. * For a recap & review of the next episode, “The Ways of the Dead” – click hereĪ young boy plays Pong in 1977. * For a recap & review of the previous episode, “Muninn” – click here ![]() Written by Peter Calloway & Aditi Brennan Kapil ![]() Season 2, Episode 4: “The Greatest Story Ever Told”
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