Finally read AEG

Andrew Mason · 03 Dec 2010, 20:25 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 20:25:40 +0000
Subject: (urth) Finally read AEG
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=z7+GxvEycJZQ6=W1hnjQX5w4xtHZ3OHmXEAmm at mail.gmail.com>

Jerry Friedman wrote|:

>> Q. When Cassie was watching the news, to get across the idea that the world of
>>this novel
>> was kind of fallen, the reporter interviewed a young man on the street who wore
>>a golden
>> phallus about his neck. Why did Wolfe choose to give the Autarch a cameo
>>appearance?
>
> Assuming the "obscene symbol" was a phallus, I still don't see him as the old
> Autarch. ?The young man has an incipient beard.

Perhaps he was an earlier Autarch. Or perhaps he was the Autarch we
know, but before his testing.

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