Father Inire: teratoid

Son of Witz · 14 Dec 2010, 23:52 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:52:57 -0800
Subject: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid
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Yes. The sentance ends with "last"
I think this story Definitely gets overthought and under-felt.
Sorry, that's a terrible way to put it.  I think the essence is often lost when we worry so much over these extended possibilities. 

Did anyone even notice my recent verticality metaphor? (Foes of the Increate) I don't think anyone has laid that out before, yet it is right there under your nose and doesn't require assembling elusive fragments of perceived clues, and frankly seems to be a huge symbolic reality that the plot is stretched tautly over.  It surprises me that these things remain hidden while we elaborate on whether or not the House Absolute is a crashed ship. It is an interesting exercise but it doesn't really get us any closer to the essence of the work. (which isn't to say good stuff can't come of such thinking.  I'm still reeling over the idea that Latro is a werewolf.
~witz




On Dec 14, 2010, at 12:18 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

> ha! Right in front of me. 
> 
> Proof that you must avoid over-thinking when reading Wolfe.
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> --- On Tue, 12/14/10, Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 2:29 PM
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> Uh...i always thought the word was "last"...because that word ends the riddle and so completes it nicely.
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>> On Dec 14, 2010 9:50 AM, "DAVID STOCKHOFF" <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> Plausible. 
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>> Has anyone else thought that the word Wolfe is thinking of when Severian writes about the serpent and sword (some strong allusion right there) "----st" is the word "Christ"?
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>> --- On Tue, 12/14/10, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid
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>> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 12:13 PM
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>> >> Perhaps I'm being too lit...
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