The Sorcerer's House Questions (Major Spoilers)

brunians at brunians.org · 18 Apr 2010, 22:34 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:34:40 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) The Sorcerer's House Questions (*Major Spoilers*)
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Con men normally behave like con men.

I've known con men.

It's obvious to me that Wolfe has also.

Con men are not all the time on the con.

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> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Granted, a lot of that is thematic rather than plot-level details. But I
>> guess I just have a hard time believing that such a careful writer as
>> Wolfe
>> would create a narrator whose primary biographical signifier from the
>> beginning of the story is "released prisoner convicted of fraud" and
>> then
>> have us listen to him describe an utterly outrageous story of magic and
>> luck
>> with total credulity when he's also cramming the narrative full of
>> overtones
>> about how everyone could potentially be conning everyone else, from the
>> newspaper people to the real estate agents to the jeweler trying to
>> lowball
>> Bax on the coin to the psychic with fake crystal balls.
>>
>
> Mr. Brewer is better at explaining than I am, certainly.  Severian
> tortures,
> Latro forgets.  Why wouldn't a liar lie?
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