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

Bob Miller · 27 Aug 2006, 10:39 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: bob_bageera at hotmail.com (Bob Miller)
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:39:56 -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>
Message-ID: <BAY103-F317687565983B6CCCC8CE0883B0 at phx.gbl>

While we all have fun niggling at the detailsand trying to read the mind of 
someone we, frequently, have not met, it often appears that part of the 
meaning IS in its being inscrutable, in the fact that this "fogginess"?, 
lack of clarity in and of themselves give us points of reference on the 
"map" of the author's meaningful design.  Possibly, because similar 
issues--the exact date of death, exact spelling of grandfather's name, which 
county born in--have embroiled many academics for thousands of pages and 
their readers for thousands of doses of dramamine.

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?

Jonathon McKitrick
--
My other computer is your Windows box.
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