# Gene 5e Wolfhead *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 16 Jan 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Raylor *16 Jan 2005, 10:01* I can't prove this. I have read t5hoc a few times but I started reading it with Google. A perilous venture. On first reading I thought it 3 stories set in a double planetary system and with a few characters and themes in common... I liked the first one best. I hadn't read much WOlfe then. But I felt I had missed something so I re-read it and was pleased that it revealed more, though I still felt there were deeper mysteries hidden. By the third reading I became convinced that this was not three stories but part of one continuous narrative. Now I am losing count... I got to page 9 and then I had to re-read what I had missed before and for a while I became stuck as though I had dropped anchor to find out why I was not moving. Levi's hypothesis The matter under discussion is an aleph. It is concealed in a name. This is ONE story told in three dissimilar ways. I cannot prove this, but I shall supply evidence so that you, dear reader, can make your own mind up on the case. The prosecution enters carrying a battered leather despatch box. ===== --- ### maru dubshinki *16 Jan 2005, 10:11 · in reply to Jim Raylor* That's an interesting idea. But my impression of cerberus was that it was three stories, three times, but one idea behind all. Somewhat like how Cerberus has three distinct heads, but each is all about cerberus and doggy-ness. Like math transformations, or the voices in a fugue. I look forward to Jim Raynor's per- prosecution. ~Maru Fugue listening to: Katamari Damacy's Fugue # 7777 > Jim Raylor wrote: > I can't prove this. > > I have read t5hoc a few times but I started reading it > with Google. A perilous venture. > On first reading I thought it 3 stories set in a > double planetary system and with a few characters and > themes in common... I liked the first one best. I > hadn't read much WOlfe then. > But I felt I had missed something so I re-read it and > was pleased that it revealed more, though I still felt > there were deeper mysteries hidden. > By the third reading I became convinced that this was > not three stories but part of one continuous > narrative. > Now I am losing count... I got to page 9 and then I > had to re-read what I had missed before and for a > while I became stuck as though I had dropped anchor to > find out why I was not moving. > > Levi's hypothesis > The matter under discussion is an aleph. > It is concealed in a name. > This is ONE story told in three dissimilar ways. > I cannot prove this, but I shall supply evidence so > that you, dear reader, can make your own mind up on > the case. > > The prosecution enters carrying a battered leather > despatch box. > > > ===== > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ --- ### Chris *16 Jan 2005, 11:51 · in reply to maru dubshinki* Personally I always thought of it musically, something like "Variations on a Theme by Proust". > That's an interesting idea. But my impression of cerberus was that it was > three stories, three times, but one idea behind all. Somewhat like how > Cerberus has three distinct heads, but each is all about cerberus and > doggy-ness. Like math transformations, or the voices in a fugue. > I look forward to Jim Raynor's per- prosecution. > > ~Maru > Fugue listening to: Katamari Damacy's Fugue # 7777 > > Jim Raylor wrote: >> I can't prove this. >> >> I have read t5hoc a few times but I started reading it >> with Google. A perilous venture. >> On first reading I thought it 3 stories set in a >> double planetary system and with a few characters and >> themes in common... I liked the first one best. I >> hadn't read much WOlfe then. >> But I felt I had missed something so I re-read it and >> was pleased that it revealed more, though I still felt >> there were deeper mysteries hidden. >> By the third reading I became convinced that this was >> not three stories but part of one continuous >> narrative. >> Now I am losing count... I got to page 9 and then I >> had to re-read what I had missed before and for a >> while I became stuck as though I had dropped anchor to >> find out why I was not moving. >> >> Levi's hypothesis >> The matter under discussion is an aleph. >> It is concealed in a name. >> This is ONE story told in three dissimilar ways. >> I cannot prove this, but I shall supply evidence so >> that you, dear reader, can make your own mind up on >> the case. >> >> The prosecution enters carrying a battered leather >> despatch box. >> >> >> ===== >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! >> Messenger - all new features - even more fun! >> http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com >> _______________________________________________ ---