A skeleton with a grey wolf's skin stretched over it, a living allegory of want?
The Winterthin Thing's thinness was more abstract than that, really. Not so much "gaunt" as "lean", now that I think of it. It certainly didn't seem ravenous or needy wanting. It seemed quite comfortable with its state, as though a threefold winter wasn't so much a hardship as Just The Way Things Are, not worthy of comment beyond its name.
An allegory, perhaps, of burning off the fat in one's life, a regimen of deliberate deprivation to get one into fighting trim?
... great, my dreams are haunted by an allegory of a diet.
Subconscious processing or external entity, the result's the same, innit?
Honestly, between Joseph Campbell, Julian Jaynes and Mage: The Ascension, I don't even acknowledge that there's a meaningful distinction.
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The Winterthin Thing's thinness was more abstract than that, really. Not so much "gaunt" as "lean", now that I think of it. It certainly didn't seem ravenous or needy wanting. It seemed quite comfortable with its state, as though a threefold winter wasn't so much a hardship as Just The Way Things Are, not worthy of comment beyond its name.
An allegory, perhaps, of burning off the fat in one's life, a regimen of deliberate deprivation to get one into fighting trim?
... great, my dreams are haunted by an allegory of a diet.
Subconscious processing or external entity, the result's the same, innit?
Honestly, between Joseph Campbell, Julian Jaynes and Mage: The Ascension, I don't even acknowledge that there's a meaningful distinction.