What meaning does the family tree lend to the story itself?

Jeff Wilson · 26 Aug 2006, 20:49 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:49:37 -0500
Subject: (urth) What meaning does the family tree lend to the story
	itself?
In-Reply-To: <20060825205757.GH79740 at dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
References: <20060825205757.GH79740 at dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Message-ID: <44F0B3E1.8020808 at io.com>

Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> I'm still at the point of figuring out the time traveling, the multiple Sev's
> and so on, but once you understand that Sev becomes the "New Sun" and saves
> Urth, what additional meaning is there to be extracted by understanding his
> entire family tree?  And since that really cannot be done, apparently, without
> confirmation from Mr. Wolfe himself, how can the true meaning of an
> inscrutable family tree ever be known?

It may not be inscrutable; hopefully, some new meaning emerges that is 
obvious in retrospect if X and Y are related by Z, but wouldn't otherwise.

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net