Dorcas (was: The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind)

Tony Ellis · 09 Jul 2010, 18:33 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 19:33:35 +0100
Subject: (urth) Dorcas (was: The mystery of the image of an astronaut
	cleaned by Rudesind)
Message-ID: <AANLkTilrQ1e2iotSu2Uc-uUsJPF1rwbndjWSOchjrUY1 at mail.gmail.com>

James Wynn wrote (of the Dorcas-grandmother puzzle):

> I remember when the grandmother theory was posed. There was no more
> textual evidence for it than this Hairy Inire theory. The only reason
> it's not sitting on the "Half-baked Theory" pile today is because Wolfe
> uncharacteristically confirmed it to a questioner.

and

>This "transparent" puzzle was only understood some 20 years after the
>book was published.  I'm sure you would have been on the list explaining
>it a week after the SotT was published if you had had the opportunity.

Where are you getting this from? The Dorcas-is-Sev's-grandmother
puzzle was understood by some of us as soon as we read Citadel of the
Autarch back in the 1980s.

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