The Outsider

Gerry Quinn · 21 Dec 2010, 15:32 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:32:33 -0000
Subject: (urth) The Outsider
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From: "Craig Brewer" <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>
> And when Wolfe also admits that he knows many people have seen New Sun as 
> a Book
> of Gold itself, it seems to fit: it, too, is telling true myths in false 
> ways.
>
> So it seems like we have a very Christian (if slightly less Catholic) 
> notion of
> a book being a guide to revelation. But we also have the very Wolfean idea 
> that
> the book misleads in all kinds of ways.

It is perhaps coincidental that _Peace_ contains a Book of Gold (at least it 
was written by a character named Gold, and concerns gold).  It is a fake, 
and it leads to conflict and possibly murder...

- Gerry Quinn

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