Ted = Goldwurm?

stoneox17 at aol.com · 02 May 2010, 15:26 · from 2010-May.txt.gz

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From: stoneox17 at aol.com (stoneox17 at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 11:26:38 -0400
Subject: (urth) Ted = Goldwurm?
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Roy wrote
>  Andrew wrote:
> > Absolutely - I was going to say something along the same lines but 
work
> > intervened. I was thinking that perhaps the  "other things" might 
just
> > have
> > been "women". Bax does of course get 3 women: Doris, Winkle and 
Millie
> > (assuming Winkle counts).

> That reminds me. It has to do with the issue of who compiled the list 
of
> characters, which lists Winker as: "Baxter Dunn's name for a friendly
> Japanese girl." That's not right. Winkle is the name Bax came up with 
for
> the talking vixen. He later mentioned several times that he didn't 
even know
> the name of the young woman who came to his bed. He first learned her 
name
> when she introduced herself to Orizia: "This lowly person is called 
Winker
> Inari." (147) Orizia was miles away in a "trance", her psychic visit.

> Is this significant, or just a mistake by Wolfe? Or is it an obscure 
clue?
> Or does it say something about the fictional Compiler?

It is not a mistake; Winker is Baxter's name for her. Actually, when she
introduced herself to Orizia, she said her name was Winkle Inari, but 
she
was speaking with a Japanese accent ...

Peter

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