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The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 24 Mar 1997
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Alice Turner — 24 Mar 1997, 00:17

>    This doesn't persuade me.  Holy Katharine is not the patron of Nessus,
> only of the torturers.  St. Catherine (of the St. Catherine's wheel fame)
> was martyred (IIRC) on a burning wheel.  If anything, this is an allusion
> to the fact that the towers are themselves rockets.  The library
> reference
> is too broad: are ALL libraries in fiction automatically the Great
> Library
> of Alexandria?

Not at all. It's only a way of looking at things, and it only works if you
think that Wolfe drops deliberate, somewhat cryptic clues as to geography.
It's part of a scheme that I honestly don't have time to post right now as
I'm on a couple of deadlines. But I will. And you probably won't like it!


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