Wolfe being clear on 5HoC

Daniel D Jones · 07 Sep 2006, 00:08 · from 2006-September.txt.gz

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From: ddjones at riddlemaster.org (Daniel D Jones)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 20:08:49 -0400
Subject: (urth) Wolfe being clear on 5HoC
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On Wednesday 06 September 2006 17:40, Tony Ellis wrote:
> bsharp wrote, quoting Wolfe:
> >>If you hire a shape
> >>changer as a guide, there's a definite
> >
> >possibility that he's going to change into your shape at some
> >
> >>point. Which
> >>is what happens.
> >
> >To me this says Wolfe generally means for his puzzles to be solvable.
>
> Heh, and to me this says that some of the people I've argued with about
> 5HC just haven't read the same book as me.
>
> To be fair, it sometimes feels like cheating to bring an external Wolfe
> quote into an argument - which is why I always try to argue directly
> from the books - and on occasion it can open a whole can of worms. But
> this one really does seem unequivocal, so thanks for digging it up.
>
> On another occasion, Wolfe has said that Marsch was replaced by one of
> the Shadow People. I *think* he meant "one of the Annese", and was
> accidentally transposing a memorable name for a less memorable one,
> because VRT exhibits all the characteristics of the abos and none of
> those of the Shadow People - but there you go: already I'm imposing my
> own preconceptions on an external Wolfe statement.

Who do you think the Shadow People are?  I took it that they were the abos in 
their natural state.

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