In regards to the difference between the simulators, I sort of just chalked that conversation up to SF conventions; I pretty much knew the answer before Mr. Million provided it. However, dumb me, now that I think about it, nothing's ever that simple with Wolfe, is it? Interesting train of thought, there; could it be that #5 and father are bound simulators? In addition to clones? Cyborg clone/simulators? Maybe the expirements #5's father performed on him involved installing a bound personality, hence the periods of increasing amnesia?
Also, did anyone notice the similarity between the description of the ghoul-bear and the alzabo? I'm trying to remember if the alzabo had man-like eyes of beast-like eyes; my friend has my copy of the New Sun books. But I also seem to remember the alzabo digging up corpses and eating them.-- ~Josh
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"Fear is the mind killer" - Frank Herbert's Dune
"If you want to get warm, you must stand near the fire. If you want to be wet, you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to... the thing that has them. They are not the sort of prize that God....[would].... just hand out to anyone." - CS Lewis, Mere Christianity "Mortal love is merely our introduction to the immortal" - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's The Seventh Gate