Some Pirate Freedom thoughts and questions

Matthew Keeley · 02 Jan 2008, 09:58 · from 2008-January.txt.gz

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From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com (Matthew Keeley)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 04:58:06 -0500
Subject: (urth) Some Pirate Freedom thoughts and questions
In-Reply-To: <d1e.16cc681c.34abe0b5 at aol.com>
References: <d1e.16cc681c.34abe0b5 at aol.com>
Message-ID: <44fb53d10801020158v354fe9cah828db31934a0fb3b at mail.gmail.com>

And there I thought my imagination was running away with me again. Dark hair
does seem more classically Italian.

So Chris is tall, dark, and genetically engineered. How long till we start
seriously discussing the possibility of Chris really being Severian(1)?

By the way, I think we should take some time and play the "Name Game" with
PF. We all know how much Wolfe likes names, and there's already been some
discussion in that vein here. Someone suggested Hoodahs (sic?) was a
variation on Judas? Lesage is literally "the wise," right? And Valentin
suggests St. Valentine, Roman martyr and the namesake for Valentine's Day.
"Christopher" is literally "Christ-carrier," and Chris seems to carry God's
voice around with him, what with the praying on the ship and his "vision"
before rescuing Hoodahs. Plus, Chrisopher is a good nautical name, not just
because of Columbus, who I know someone here mentioned, but also because St.
Christopher carried the infant Jesus over water (A river, I believe).

Also, why did Chris think Hoodahs came from the future? Just because he
spoke English under duress? Or did Chris have reason to believe there might
be other time travelers on the Spanish Main?

-Matt

On Jan 1, 2008 1:30 PM, <JBarach at aol.com> wrote:

>  Mathew writes:
>
> >>> What did Chris do to get confused for a Dutchman or a German?
>
> >> He's blond?
>
> > He is, isn't he? I guess I need to work on my close-reading.
>
> Nope.  He says somewhere early in the book that he has dark hair.  But I
> can't find the page just now.
>
> John
>
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