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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "whorl", "thread": { "id": 397, "subject": "ThoseQuestionsAgain", "messages": 1, "voices": 1, "first": "1997-07-12T01:50:00+00:00", "last": "1997-07-12T01:50:00+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "m.driussi", "address": "m.driussi at genie.com" }, "date": "1997-07-12T01:50:00+00:00", "subject": "(whorl) ThoseQuestionsAgain", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Reply: Item #7660783 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00#" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Print! Clip! Save!<<" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Ask Gene Wolfe #2\n\n16: Kieran Mullen writes, \"It's pretty broadly indicated that\nSilk was gestated from a frozen embroyo as Mucor was. This has\nsome nice symbolic effects (\"virgin birth\", the hero as having\nunusual origins, etc.). Does Silk have any human engineered,\nextraordinary abilities?\n\n \"(Possible Lupine hint: he knew Hyacinth's name before she\nwas introduced, and felt that they had made a non-physical\ncontact.)\n\n \"Please pass along my compliments to Mr. Wolfe as one of the\nmost creative, skilled, and theologically fascinating writers\nI've ever read.\"\n\n17: Peter Cash writes, \"I feel that what happened on top\nof the airship was somehow crucial to the story of the Long Sun.\nIt touches on the mystery of Silk's \"Enlightenment,\" his\ndisillusionment, and on the nature of the narrative itself. I\nfeel Horn is hiding something about these events. Now how do I\nform this into a precise question?\n\n \"It appears that someone either jumped or fell from the top\nof the airship, and was saved by the other man with him. I\nsuppose that asking \"Who jumped or fell from the top of the\nairship, and why?\" would be interpreted as two questions. So I\nwill try this: \"What was the motive for the jumping or falling\nthat took place on top of the airship?\" That is, I'm not looking\nfor a physical explanation here (not, \"Silk pushed Horn\", or\n\"Silk jumped\"), but for the reason _why_ someone did the pushing\nor jumping.\n\n18: Paul C Duggan asks, \"Describe in detail a voided cross and a\ngammadion.\"\n\n19: Robert Borski asks, \"What is the etymology of `Mamelta'?\"\n\n20: Ranjit Bhatnagar asks, \"Mint states that she had to\ngive up many things, `five of them very great,' to become a\nsibyl. Can you tell us what those five things were?\"\n\n21: Michael Straight writes, \"I'm thinking Wolfe may\nnot want to answer questions that might boil down to `give us\nsome big plot spoilers for the Short Sun series.'\n\n \"I'm having trouble formulating what I'd like to ask Wolfe\nas a single question, but here's my try:\n\n \"There are scenes in the series that are hard to imagine\nHorn hearing about from witnesses (e.g. Musk training the hawk,\nQuetzal's thoughts and actions before and after meeting with\nRemora, Silk's beautiful prayers to the gods and to the\nOutsider). Are these . . .\n\n \"A) Extrapolations by Horn (possibly including hagiography\nof Silk)?\n\n \"B) Examples like \"Afterward,\" the very last section of\nExodus From the Long Sun of material in The Book of the Long Sun\nthat is not from The Book of Silk?\n\n \"If this is too unwieldy (I'm obviously trying to squeeze\nseveral questions into one), you might get something interesting\njust by asking, `How trustworthy a narrator is Horn?' or even\n`Who is the narrator of the very last chapter of Exodus From the\nLong Sun?'\"\n\n22. Alice K. Turner asks, \"Why did Auk/Tartaros kidnap\nHyacinth, and why, subsequently, did he let her go?\"\n\n23. Vance asks (follow-up question), \"What was Quetzal's motive\nin wanting a thriving human colony on Green?\"\n\n24. Ron Crown asks, \"Why does the monitor, having given the\npassengers in the lander a choice between Blue or Green, overrule\ntheir (Quetzal's) choice of Green? Or maybe why were they given\na choice in the first place, if the monitor already knew where to\ngo? Or was the fact that it was Quetzal (an inhumi) who made the\nchoice cause the monitor to change from the Green (the inhumi\nwhorl) to Blue?\"\n\n25. Peter Cash bonus question, \"Does Green/Blue have\nanything to do with FIFTH HEAD of CERBERUS?\"\n\n26. Robert Borski bonus question, \"Who was (since we are told in\nEXODUS she's recently expired and Nettle seems to have known her)\nHyacinth's mother?\"\n\n27. Group Question: \"Is 'Pike's ghost' really Quetzal? If not,\nwho or what is it?\"\n\n28. David Lebling writes, \"There are two places in\nExodus From the Long Sun where you seem to have switched Mint and\nMarble. One is in chapter 14, where Siyuf addresses Marble, but\nit's Mint that's there. The other is in \"My Defense,\" where Horn\nsees Mint in the tunnels, but it should be Marble. Given the\nmerger of Marble and Rose, it makes me wonder if something is\ngoing on; or is this just an auctorial or editorial error?\"\n\n=mantis=" } ] } ] }