Boatman as Inire

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 09 Aug 2010, 16:26 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:26:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Boatman as Inire
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That is how I see Inire. He's "gone native," but that doesn't mean Avatar-style or even Colonel Kurtz. He's more like the English officers who lived among Indians and had multiple wives or at least multiple bastards. (Not to suggest anything specifically about his sexual proclivities, but there it is.)

If anything, if the Cumaean and Inire should have beautiful forms but do not, this suggests a kind of fall or at least abandonment of something, if not exactly "wings," in favor of living among the mortals. But this scheme doesn't work itself out so easily either.

--- On Mon, 8/9/10, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com> wrote:
There is also a trope of the "good" fallen angel--a higher being whose
sin, as it were, is caring too much about the lowly humans it is
charged with overseeing.? Captain Kirk's willy-nilly disregard of Prime
Directive comes to mind, as does the?Doctor and?Uatu the Watcher (oh,
and Zauriel...and arguably the Green Lantern...the Silver Surfer...I
could go on,?although I'm hesistant in ascribing comic book inspiration
to Wolfe unless there's a specific connection to look to.)
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