WK; Arnthor's feast

incanto at mtecom.net13 Oct 2017, 20:11

The transformation of Morcaine's face into her brother also reduces them into a "sibling" character, though it only seems to make thematic rather than surface plot sense. "[Morcaine's] face became that of her brother, I cannot say how. I was not conscious of having turned, yet it was to him I spoke." I think GW is giving us a glimpse here of Morcaine's sorcery. She "intercepted" the communication meant for her brother. How much of that Arnthor knows about we don't know. Classic Wolfe. FW.

Marc Aramini13 Oct 2017, 20:31

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If you followed the other posts, I was getting at something else, of course: Morcaine and Arnthor (and everyone, really) are collapsing into one dream-like figure engaged in a pre-birth struggle, that between siblings fighting for resources who will soon become one chimeric twin to be born into America - "how far to the dream my mother had?" - simultaneously vastly and impossibly distant while shockingly omnipresent. Of all Wolfe's works, I think this and There Are Doors reduce to almost entirely internal landscapes.

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On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:11 PM, <incanto at mtecom.net> wrote: - The transformation of Morcaine's face into her brother also reduces them into a "sibling" character, though it only seems to make thematic rather than surface plot sense. - "[Morcaine's] face became that of her brother, I cannot say how. I was not conscious of having turned, yet it was to him I spoke." I think GW is giving us a glimpse here of Morcaine's sorcery. She "intercepted" the communication meant for her brother. How much of that Arnthor knows about we don't know. Classic Wolfe. FW. _______________________________________________

incanto at mtecom.net13 Oct 2017, 21:04

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Nice.

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