moldy bread dream, smell, grain merchant, American plot in 7an

Marc Aramini09 Sep 2014, 15:54

Tallman's work on seven American nights is almost correct. America has a plot to be great again involving the grain merchant gollem gassem but it involves air bound spores. Nadan dreams of moldy bread and wonders why America would wish such a thing. The weapon they will employ is their specialty: drugs. When the smithsonian guy says smell is true communication it is hinting at an airborne infectious vector for gollem gassem's grain when it is prepared. This is why Nadan is sure he was drugged on the ship - scent or foreshadowing of America's plot. They are going to destroy Persia/Iran as they were destroyed. I don't think it has much to do with any other weapons cache, as that is not thematically stressed in the text. It is poison, probably via smell, that they posit. Perhaps kreton was reaching for the vial they gave Nadan if he wasn't just copping a feel. Gassem!

aaron10 Sep 2014, 02:32

↳ in reply to Marc Aramini

Nice. I never could quite figure out Gassem's purpose in the story. But I always knew that Wolfe never has useless characters in his work, so I knew he had some reason for showing him to us. Thanks for this.

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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote: Tallman's work on seven American nights is almost correct. America has a plot to be great again involving the grain merchant gollem gassem but it involves air bound spores. Nadan dreams of moldy bread and wonders why America would wish such a thing. The weapon they will employ is their specialty: drugs. When the smithsonian guy says smell is true communication it is hinting at an airborne infectious vector for gollem gassem's grain when it is prepared. This is why Nadan is sure he was drugged on the ship - scent or foreshadowing of America's plot. They are going to destroy Persia/Iran as they were destroyed. I don't think it has much to do with any other weapons cache, as that is not thematically stressed in the text. It is poison, probably via smell, that they posit. Perhaps kreton was reaching for the vial they gave Nadan if he wasn't just copping a feel. Gassem! _______________________________________________

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