 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 " . 
