The Guild's Revolutionary

Mo Holkar / UKG · 23 Nov 2009, 10:46 · from 2009-November.txt.gz

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From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar / UKG)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:46:33 +0000
Subject: (urth) The Guild's Revolutionary
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At 02:26 22/11/2009, you wrote:
>It strikes me that we could probably learn a lot if there were some 
>way to get everything in Wolfe that seems obvious to some reader and 
>pile all of those together in one place.  For instance, I was all 
>aboard the "Nessus is Buenos Aires" train when I read _BotNS_ first 
>at 13 or 14, because I was also in the throes of a Borges phase and 
>Master Ultan was obviously, clearly, no question about it, 
>Borges.  Same with "Baldanders."
>
>Later I found out this might be controversial.
>
>I strongly suspect if we actually put everything together that each 
>reader had always said "Well, DUH, I didn't mention it because I 
>thought everyone knew it already," then we'd actually discover a lot of stuff.



Someone (Dan'l?) a while ago started a plot summary of BotNS on the 
Wolfe Wiki -- that might be a good place to accumulate such 
references. At the moment it just has a para for each chapter, but it 
would make sense to either link those through to a more detailed 
page, or add such material to this page:
http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=TheShadowOfTheTorturer.DetailedSummary

best wishes,

Mo



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