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  "thread": {
    "id": 4286,
    "subject": "Notes on _The Wizard_",
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    "first": "2005-01-03T21:55:55+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<a05111b08bdffd8d6f1a2@[209.157.137.70]>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "wolfe-lists at danrabin.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-03T21:55:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Notes on _The Wizard_",
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          "text": "What an outpouring of pent-up commentary we've had!\nHere are some short notes I myself have been saving up:\n\n1.  \"Arthur Ormsby\".  My reaction was \"What, again?\", thinking of \"Oh \nWrangler, oh _Artie_\" at the end of _Castleview_.  So Able is really \nWrangler Dunstan, right?\n\n2.  \"Arthur Ormsby\".  I thought the surname smelled of Significance, \nso I did a Google search.  \n<http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?html=b&ln=Ormsby&sourcecode=13304> \nsays the -by suffix is a Norse word for settlement. \nThe suffix occurs, I've heard, in those areas of Great Britain \nconquered by the Vikings. \n<http://www.ormsby.org/genie/Australia/Origin.html> has Orm as a big \nstrong hero from Scandinavia.  I don't know how much to trust such \nweb sites, and I would welcome any scholarly confirmation of the \nauthenticity of the legend.\n\n3. The acceleration of the last part of the book.  I think this is a \nbad habit of Wolfe's.  I thought _Exodus from the Long Sun_ was \nrushed, and it really just sets up the _Short Sun_ series rather than \nending.  For that matter, _The Citadel of the Autarch_ just zooms \nabout once it's well past the stories that were put in to pad it out \nafter Wolfe split it off from _The Sword of the Lictor_.  _The Urth \nof the New Sun_, too, changes locales like a slide projector.\n\n4. Queen Idnn.  The giantesses were prepared for very carefully in \nthe narrative, but they still seem to come out of nowhere.  I just \nfound it hard to buy the notion that a brief marriage, not known to \nbe consummated, would be taken as conferring authority on a \nforeigner.  And maybe I missed why the female Angrborn live apart, \nand why the males prefer human women.\n\n5. The Black Knight was obviously Duke Marder.  Didn't surprise me.\n\n6. Org's near-invisibility wasn't memorable from _The Knight_, and \nwas perhaps a tad overused. \n\n7. Mani was a continued delight, and I missed him when the thickening \nof the narrative could no longer accommodate his speaking role.  Does \nanyone think he was G. Gordon Kitty in a previous life :-) ?\n\n   -- Dan Rabin"
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