Some Pirate Freedom thoughts and questions

Dan · 04 Dec 2007, 15:25 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: autarch at vippn.com (Dan)
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:25:35 -0600
Subject: (urth) Some Pirate Freedom thoughts and questions
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Fernando wrote:

>:-) I think the temptation to be smarter than Wolfe and to see hidden
>connections everywhere is with us always...

Lol. Actually reading Wolfe makes me feel very stupid and uneducated and 
it's through the effort of discovering these hidden connections that I feel 
slightly less stupid. :)

And I'm sure they are there, all writers know far more about their 
characters and story that ever makes it onto the printed page.

paul witcover wrote:

 >     The similarity of "wiseguy" and "Lesage" led me to wonder if that
 >     pirate is really another iteration of Chris, and whether Chris's
 >     father is Lesage -- and there might be more than one temporal loop
 >     involved -- but when I saw Wolfe at the World Fantasy Convention, I
 >     asked him explicitly about this, and his response was "No, I hadn't
 >     thought of that.  You're smarter than I am."  I protested the
 >     contrary!

  Like any good magician, Wolfe won't reveal any of his "tricks" lest it 
tarnish the glamor. Instead, he pays the questioner a kind compliment to 
sidetrack the discussion. Very clever!

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