Patera Incus

Lee Berman · 16 Aug 2010, 13:53 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:53:25 -0400
Subject: (urth) Patera Incus
Message-ID: <SNT123-W4836DDCEB0049D757A5BFACF9B0 at phx.gbl>

>James Wynn- The fact is, I didn't originally decide that Incus was a woman based 
>those letters or Hyacinth's sacrifice. I stumbled upon a few things 
>Wolfe was doing thematically and saw --to my surprise-- that he was 
>treating Incus consistently as female.

I think we are in general agreement on the structure. I don't agree that the order
one uses in perceiving the structure is important (except as personal anecdote).

People's brains work differently and I give credit to Wolfe for providing us with 
more than one path to the solutions to his puzzles. When I see one avenue to a 
solution it might be interesting. If a second path leads to the same place I take
serious note. More than that and, as you say, it becomes as clear in the text as
that there are Inhumi on Green.

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