PEACE: One Devil

Dave Tallman · 22 Apr 2008, 06:45 · from 2008-April.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:45:42 -0600
Subject: (urth)  PEACE: One Devil
Message-ID: <480D8996.1000909 at gmail.com>

>(And that possible Clue connection is interesting as well.  It is a
>murder mystery, after all.)

To press on the analogy, Clue players must visit specific rooms in a mansion
in order to invoke memories to confirm or contradict their theories. They cannot access
the central room where the truth is hidden.

Likewise, Weer says he lives on the periphery of his house and that he never goes into
his den (Den, himself) p. 10. A similar point is made by the waiting-room music,
"A Life for the Czar" by Glinka (p. 3). In this opera, a Russian peasant is forced
by an invading army to lead them to the secret hiding place of the Czar. Pretending to
comply, he leads them on a wild-goose-chase through swamps and thickets until they
are completely demoralized. It fits my experience trying to follow Weer in this
novel!

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