Sleeping Baldanders

David Stockhoff · 30 Dec 2008, 15:28 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:28:08 -0500
Subject: (urth) Sleeping Baldanders
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I have always linked these 2 scenes in my mind, but never knew what to make of it .... Homage, perhaps.

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This scene reminds me of Moby Dick, where Ishmael has to sleep next to
Queequeg at the inn.  Looking back at Moby Dick, I feel sure Wolfe is
referring to Melville here.  Melville makes reference several times to a
counterpane in Chs. 3 and 4, and Severian writes that before going to bed,
"I took of my cloak and spread it on the worn counterpane."

I think the bit about striking off is a bit of picaresque humor in the vane
of, say, Moby Dick, but it is a mystery to me what Baldanders means about
"Never," unless they have something to do with the spooky dreams he reports
having had.

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