Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

David Stockhoff · 13 Aug 2010, 02:07 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:07:54 -0400
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
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You're bending my example a little, but that's a very good point.

I'm specifically suggesting (a) a dramatic conclusion and (b) "new" 
information. Obviously "Apu Punchau!" would be a very bad punchline to a 
ghost story that doesn't mention or reference him until then.

Your version would be more like "The ghost was ... the man in black who 
was my grandfather's brother and my grandmother's lover and the father 
of his son, who sailed to China, as told in Chapters 2, 4, and 7!"

He does indeed do that ALL the time.

Or something.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> Right here, giving reasons ...
>>     
>
>  > Imagine a ghost story that ends, "The ghost was ... MYSELF!"
>   
>> Now imagine one that ends, "The ghost was ... some guy I never met! Over
>> there ... somewhere."
>>
>> Which one does Wolfe pick, over and over?
>>     
>
> Doesn't he usually work both in? Severian is the Conciliator, and Apu
> Punchau. But there's another Apu Punchau, and there were other Severians
> who weren't either one. Marsch is an abo, but there was a real Marsch we
> never met, and there then there's the Homeric Greeks and a German who
> don't actually appear but are still pretty important.
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