Sorcerer's House--First Read--Some Thoughts/Questions

James Wynn · 09 Apr 2010, 19:43 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:43:33 -0500
Subject: (urth) Sorcerer's House--First Read--Some Thoughts/Questions
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>The note with the pistols was not meant for Bax but for
>Trelawney.Trelawney's questions were _not_ intended to prove that Bax
>was not some other Baxter Dunn but to verify that he was not George
>(impersonating Bax) who would become the werewolf (or was already).

After considering this a bit, I think George must have known about
their father before he left for Medicine Man. He comes into the
reading of the will accusing Bax of attempting to cheat him. He think
the House is to be left to *him*. (Why?) If George is already a
werewolf, then ihe s probably well aware of Faeri. Since he already
knows about their father, naturally he assumes that the House is to be
left to him as well. And because Trelawney knew George was a werewolf,
he held him off with the dueling pistol. George might well have known
that that type of gun was the type most credibl to have silver
bullets.

Is there reason to believe that Bax was the *younger* twin? If George
is a werewolf, there is certainly a Jacob/(hairy) Esau thing going on
here. As you know, Jacob not only cheated Esau out of his elder-son
blessing, but he earlier sold Esau a pot of beans for his birthright
-- an act in which Esau was hardly innocent, just as Bax implies was
the case with George. Yet, I can't think of a scenario in which Bax
changed the will and the instructions, or impersonates George.

Side note: Trelawney was the Romantic poet/adventurer who arranged for
burials of Shelley and Williams when they drowned (and was present
when they died). He wrote a novel entitled "Adventures of a Younger
Son", which was seen by the public as somewhat autobiographical.

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