7.8 [re-watch]

[A Cousin]

(13-07-2011 08:14 PM)lottanyman Wrote:  

(12-07-2011 02:17 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  - Do I believe Connie re: selling Lucas out? Do you?

I'm still not sure on this. There is so much going on around this statement that I feel there is not enough time to really think about it. That's why I'm neither sure whether Lucas believes this. And then he doesn't get a chance to talk about it with Harry...

Taking the analogy further, Connie, as one of the personifications of Tiresias, takes a swig or two from her gin bottle before she is killed at the hands of the bomb planted by her Apollo. I think that she was not going to be able to diffuse the nuclear aspect without tripping it, thus, like Tiresias, she knew she was going to die. She also takes a swig from her Gin bottle. In the legend of Tiresias' death, he drinks from a spring by the name of Tilphussa which was known to be tainted (Gin = poisoned water?). This spring was guarded by the nymph Telphusa whose name derives from tiphos being a pool of standing water or marsh, and tilphê, filled with insect larvae. To beat the dead horse of symbolism, if Connie is Tiresius, she gives her advice - to both Ros and Lucas (the hero's of our tale = Oddyseus?) - but is not believed by either of them. Or at least not fully. Which would be why Lucas feels he needs to confirm it with Harry. Ergo, Connie is telling the truth about being the one who turned Lucas into the FSB all those years ago.