voisrite

Marc Aramini13 May 2014, 07:43

I noticed that Wolfe used a voice actuated transcriber in two stories from the 70s with the brand name voisrite, connecting "the blue mouse" and "silhouette", but just noticed that it also appears in 2004's "Monster". I am kind of baffled that he brought it back after 30 years.

DAVID STOCKHOFF13 May 2014, 14:13

↳ in reply to Marc Aramini

I never thought of it as a brand but as a generic name for a tool. Thus the "unbreakable" spelling. Think of it as a "phone." On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 3:43 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote: I noticed that Wolfe used a voice actuated transcriber in two stories from the 70s with the brand name voisrite, connecting "the blue mouse" and "silhouette", but just noticed that it also appears in 2004's "Monster". ?I am kind of baffled that he brought it back after 30 years.

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Marc Aramini13 May 2014, 16:32

↳ in reply to DAVID STOCKHOFF

Sure, but in "Monster" it does have the trademark sign next to it though (not in the earlier texts, however). In "The Blue Mouse" I have never been confident about whether the foreign law comprises an alien contingent or just a jingoistic representation: "our lads are only wanting to be free of the foreign law, and the greasy dark foreigners followin' your blue rag half round the world to suck our blood." Sometimes I like to take things quite literally in Wolfe. Easier to justify aliens if The Blue Mouse and Silhouette occur in the same fictional universe.

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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:13 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote: I never thought of it as a brand but as a generic name for a tool. Thus the "unbreakable" spelling. Think of it as a "phone." On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 3:43 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote: I noticed that Wolfe used a voice actuated transcriber in two stories from the 70s with the brand name voisrite, connecting "the blue mouse" and "silhouette", but just noticed that it also appears in 2004's "Monster". I am kind of baffled that he brought it back after 30 years. _______________________________________________

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