Friday, October 1, 2010

Filling A Kiddie Pool With Jello

Danilo Arona - L'ombra del dio alato (2003)


From the beginning I will not hide the fact that few books have affected me like this in Arona, who previously had excited me to the next, and evocative novel Black Magic Woman , dated 2006. The shadow of the winged god is rather an essay tout-court in which the author, using interdisciplinary approaches, which detects a single plot that seems to connect strange rites dating back more than 10,000 years ago involving the use of unspecified wings belonging a grandi volatili (riemerse grazie ad importanti scoperte archeologiche verificatesi intorno agli anni '50) ad alcuni avvenimenti “particolari” che riguardano l'attuale popolazione occupante il pianeta, tutto ruotando attorno alla figura del dio alato che altri non è che Pazuzu , la dispettosa entità che si era indebitamente appropriata del corpo della giovane Regan McNeil ( Linda Blair ) nel film L'esorcista e che qui funge da fulcro.

«Ormai da molti anni stiamo assistendo a una vasta proliferazione di studi e ricerche su una serie di aspetti misteriosi e irrisolti riguardo il passato humanity. Issues which have not always received the necessary attention from academia, science so-called "official" and traditional archeology. "With these words

Arona introduces us to a world as ours, that from the earliest pages we struggle really recognized as such smoothness that is to confuse history and legend, without causing too many problems with the logic or veracity of the facts. On this point has focused technique capable of Arona, thanks also to his journalistic activities: as the whole is supported by a bibliography of all archaeological and esoteric than, its strength lies in the plot almost (?) Fictionalized. Criptoarcheologia, clipeologia, genetic experiments at the foundation of civilization, rain sui generis, experiments [fiction] in the contemporary scientific, exorcisms, collective sightings of creatures "unknown", these are the ingredients of which seems to be fond Pazuzu, the demon winged reptiles hybridized with dogs and eagles.
who is not accustomed to these issues might be involved in a seminal reading and analyzing the first of endless doors that later will want to open suspicious or not, that is, those who already have "hands-on", will not find big news, but it could still have fun sliding on these pages that sometimes smell of noir.

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