The twentieth-century French poet René Char found the blind, lustful huntsman, both pursuer and pursued, a central symbol, as James Lawler has explained at some length in his 1978 work "René Char: the Myth and the Poem." French novelist Claude Simon likewise found Orion an apt symbol, in this case of the writer, as he explained in his "Orion aveugle" of 1970. Marion Perret argues that Orion is a silent link in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922), connecting the lustful Actaeon/Sweeney to the blind Teiresias and, through Sirius, to the Dog "that's friend to men".