one more for the train

Mantis, If there's room on the train, I'd like to refine my initial question about Quetzal's motives to: What was Quetzal's motive in wanting a thriving human colony on Green? Thanks again for this chance at getting some concrete(?) answers from the man himself, Vance P.S. Someone--PLEASE--ask what, specifically, was the ghost of Pike, which Silk saw in his manse.

I'm thinking Wolfe may not want to answer questions that might boil down to "give us some big plot spoilers for the Short Sun series." Do some people feel cheated that what they thought would be a self-contained series ends with some loose ends to be tied up in a subsequent series? I'm having trouble formulating what I'd like to ask Wolfe as a single question, but here's my try: There are scenes in the series that are hard to imagine Horn hearing about from witnesses (e.g. Musk training the hawk, Quetzal's thoughts and actions before and after meeting with Remora, Silk's beautiful prayers to the gods and to the Outsider). Are these... A) Extrapolations by Horn (possibly including hagiography of Silk)? B) Examples like the very last chapter of Exodus of material in _The Book of the Long Sun_ that is not from The Book of Silk? If this is too unwieldy (I'm obviously trying to squeeze several questions into one), you might get something interesting just by asking, "How trustworthy a narrator is Horn?" or even "Who is the narrator of the very last chapter of Exodus?" I'll let you refine the question as you see fit. -Rostrum

Ignore previous post on Exodus and Deuteronomy. Nutria (If you thought it was funny, okay.)

You mean the last chapter of Deuteronomy. Nutria