Subject: (whorl) The Big Connection

From: Joel Priddy <jpriddy at saturn.vcu.edu>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 19:02:05 +0000

[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

mantis say:
>>Pike's naughty nookie, while creating manteion's
nemesis Blood...<<

That's it! Forget _Fifth_Head_. The connection is between
_Castleview_ and _Long_Sun_! Pike fathers the Manteon's own
Mordred with his sybyl/"sister", and then returns from the dead
at the Manteon's hour of need.  And Rose makes a point of
protecting and caring for his knife (Excaliber?).

Oh, the wheels within wheels.

<g>
cephalothorax