White Gold and ghosts
The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 31 Jan 2000
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Michael Purdy — 31 Jan 2000, 11:02

Hi folks,

	I'll join the delurking trend.
	I had two notes that I wanted to respond to.  First, to Alex's comments
about similarities between OBW and Thomas Covenant:  Covenant didn't get
his ring from Lena, the girl he raped.  He came into the Land wearing the
white gold, which was his wedding ring (which he still wore, even though he
was divorced).  Sorry to hear you didn't like the Covenant books--I did,
although I haven't reread them anywhere near as much as I've reread Wolfe.
	Second, on the "ghost in the middle of a novel" remark from Wolfe--this
makes me think of the narrator of Peace, who, unless I'm misremembering, is
revealed as a ghost at the end of the book.  Can't remember his name,
though, and don't have my copy of Peace handy.  Although no one would dare
to call Peace SF.  Hmm...have to give this some more thought.

Michael Purdy
  
	 


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Kevin J. Maroney — 31 Jan 2000, 11:49
  follows, by subject match Michael Purdy

> At 11:02 AM 1/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
> Second, on the "ghost in the middle of a novel" remark from Wolfe--this
> makes me think of the narrator of Peace, who, unless I'm misremembering, is
> revealed as a ghost at the end of the book.  Can't remember his name,
> though, and don't have my copy of Peace handy.  Although no one would dare
> to call Peace SF.  Hmm...have to give this some more thought.

Dennis Weir. And it's not revealed at the end; it's revealed, very
obliquely, midway through. 

_Peace_ does have a science-fictional element: The factory built by
Dennis's "uncle" Julius manufactures a powdered orange drink made from
potato powder. And a lot of the stories embedded within _Peace_ are
fantastic--either fairy tales or supernatural horror. 

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