Inhumi in the Whorl

Lee Berman · 18 Aug 2010, 01:59 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:59:07 -0400
Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
Message-ID: <SNT123-W175ED8CBF7076E48595436CF9D0 at phx.gbl>

>Jeff Wynn- Well, they are there for *him* [Gene Wolfe]. Because he knows where 
>the clues are and he knows where the clues are *not*. I'm sure he thinks it's 
>perfectly obvious who that guy was with barnacles who climb into Horn's boat...if 
>you are just paying attention.

That Gene Wolfe fellow must not be the sharpest tool in the shed or he'd have 
figured out after 30 years of writing that nobody finds his stories obvious. ;- )

A good observation that knowledege of where clues are not is almost as useful
as knowledge of where they are.

That barnacle crusted thing is pretty weird. What I'd like it to be is an old
version of Seawrack, a..erm...temptress created for the Neighbors which is now
so senile it jumped into the boat of the wrong species.

What Horn's weird musings suggest is that it is some sort of Vanished People
version of King Midas, cursed by the gifts of the gods, immortal and spending
eternity underwater collecting a coating of crustaceans.

My worst fear is that it is what becomes of Blue's version of Severian.

Oannes indeed. Sigh.

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net