The Old Pen Case

Steve McCann · 30 Jul 2008, 21:06 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: steve2mccann at gmail.com (Steve McCann)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:06:53 -0600
Subject: (urth) The Old Pen Case
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Just on a personal note, speaking as a reader being acted upon by the text,
the first time I read the short sun series I was completely floored by the
scene mentioned below. In my experience Wolfe always reveals what's going on
but you have to be open to seeing it. Even though I knew that Horn was dead,
I did not want to believe it. I kept hoping for some kind of "deus ex
neighbor," something to rescue the hero of this series. Reading Wolfe is a
sort of game but, borrowing from Delillo, what's a game to make us feel like
this?
-s

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:

> But after talking to Remora and realizing that he was Silk and that Horn
> was gone, he knew that he could summon Seawrack safely and get her away from
> Blue. (He was not Nettle's husband at all now, so he could call Seawrack
> even though Nettle was still alive.)
>
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