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1) saying the office is unchangeable, fixed--it is a memory, not the
real thing: another hint to the reader that Weer is dead. It is a
preserved corpse of an office.
2) the nails are also somewhat cruel, reminding us of "A Christmas
Carol"'s ghost Morely, who says he "wears the chains he forged
in life". Weer is nailed to his memos.
Could they also be coffin nails?
Someone else writes:
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"priest" in a prominent role. HOTHOUSE lacks any specific comparisons other than a future with a dying sun, but there's something of the same melancholy.
Doesn't it also have photo-synthesizing humans? (like the Green Man?)
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