I just joined as I've just finised re-reading "The Wastelands" and came across a passage that contained the phrase "Dycian Maze." on pg 340.
I have scoured the internet, looked through several dictionaries and cannot find a definition. I have consulted several other word fiends and they have no clue either.
What I have discovered is that there was a heavy metal band, briefly, in the UK called "Dycian Maze" well after the book was published (2008), and I also found the term "Dycian theory" mentioned in an Edinburgh publication online that didn't make a lick of sense or allow me to extract a meaning.
Does anyone have any clue to what "Dycian Maze" is, what the term "Dycian" refers to or comes from? My initial suspicion was that it was a Greek mythology reference but I haven't found one.
The portion of the book is when Gasher has just taken Jake into see the Tick-Tock Man and Roland and Oy are approaching the sealed door.
Here is the entire sentence:
"And, just as then reached the shaft which led to the lower levels of this Dycian Maze, Roland had heard the sound of some new machine-a pump of some sort, perhaps-followed by the metallic, echoing crash of a door being slammed shut."
Any help would be appreciated. While we have a working definition based on the context, I have never been so foiled in my attempts to discern the actual meaning of a word or phrase. In advance, thank you.
I have scoured the internet, looked through several dictionaries and cannot find a definition. I have consulted several other word fiends and they have no clue either.
What I have discovered is that there was a heavy metal band, briefly, in the UK called "Dycian Maze" well after the book was published (2008), and I also found the term "Dycian theory" mentioned in an Edinburgh publication online that didn't make a lick of sense or allow me to extract a meaning.
Does anyone have any clue to what "Dycian Maze" is, what the term "Dycian" refers to or comes from? My initial suspicion was that it was a Greek mythology reference but I haven't found one.
The portion of the book is when Gasher has just taken Jake into see the Tick-Tock Man and Roland and Oy are approaching the sealed door.
Here is the entire sentence:
"And, just as then reached the shaft which led to the lower levels of this Dycian Maze, Roland had heard the sound of some new machine-a pump of some sort, perhaps-followed by the metallic, echoing crash of a door being slammed shut."
Any help would be appreciated. While we have a working definition based on the context, I have never been so foiled in my attempts to discern the actual meaning of a word or phrase. In advance, thank you.