"Once Upon a Midnight Weary..."

Robert Borski · 02 Jun 1998, 13:51 · from urth-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Robert Borski" <rborski at coredcs.com>
Subject: (urth) "Once Upon a Midnight Weary..."
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:51:16
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Somewhat earlier the more than astute mantis, amaneunsis to M. Vladimir,
wrote:

>Then there is the Edgar Allen Poe sequence: the officer is distracted
>by a one-eyed black cat; then by a mysterious black bird that flies
>in and perches on the picture frame--one almost expects the bird to
>croak, "Nevermore."  Both creatures in Poe's work signal missing
>women: the first a murdered wife, the second a wife lost to disease.
>Regardless of that, animal messengers are a part of the abo world
>rather than that of the colonist.

The cat is lifted nearly wholecloth from "The Black Cat," from monocularity
to its name, Pluto. As the officer tells us he's a *graveyard* cat.

Also a semi-autobiographical note, since Gene Wolfe attended a school named
after Eddy Poe.=20

Re the IGene colors: Green: Victor's mother; Lucius Shepherd.

ta-tap-tap

YOU STILL THERE NINETY-NINE?

I SEE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE CAVE.

FAITEZ ATTENTION... ROY'S HANDS? HIS ABONESS?

RECORDS DESTROYED IN WAR, N'EST-CE PAS?

START THINKING FROGTOWN.

POSSIBLE SIDETRIP BLOUNT.

POSSIBLE CLUTISH TIE-IN/STANDALONE: TANTE'S GIRLS.

taptap-taptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptap-taptap

"...Suddenly I heard a tapping."

NEVERMORE

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