Hethor's Poppet The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 19 Jun 2010 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5637 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. ============================================================================== Jack Smith — 19 Jun 2010, 18:47 I don't know if Agia is a robot or Hethor's paracoita, but here's a video of Megan Fox with a mannequin that's creepy enough to be Hethor's poppet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiPTa1wod_0 -- Best wishes, Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lee Berman — 21 Jun 2010, 02:48 follows, by subject match Jack Smith I find Gene Wolfe's work to often be veiled but detectably autobiographical. I must guess references to violet-eyed beauties were inspired by Elizabeth Taylor, famous for that color eyes, and a teen movie star only a year younger than Mr.Wolfe. I can't imagine Agia as a paracoita; she is small but not violet-eyed plus she is a hard-ass and hard-headed (heh heh) stubborn, to boot. Not good characteristics in a sex toy. Thecla has violet eyes but is hardly small or doll-like; she is even described as having some masculine qualities. I propose Phaedria, from 5HoC as the most similar Wolfe character to the paracoita. She has the violet eyes and is presented as rather poppet- doll-like, feminine and on the compliant side. Moreover Borski has proposed that Hethor is a shape-changer. Perhaps a Shadow Child or Annese decided to board the ship and travel to another universe (i.e. another Wolfe story) taking along Phaedria, or more likely, a clone of her, as a pleasant companion. Surely Gene Wolfe had similar dreams in his youth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------