# WK; Arnthor's feast *The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 13 Oct 2017* > 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. --- ### incanto at mtecom.net *13 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 Aramini *13 Oct 2017, 20:31 · in reply to incanto at mtecom.net* 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. > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:11 PM, 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.net *13 Oct 2017, 21:04 · in reply to Marc Aramini* Nice. ---