some mysterious stuff in Long Sun

Andrew Mason · 18 Jan 2011, 13:44 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:44:00 +0000
Subject: (urth) some mysterious stuff in Long Sun
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=JMxDqJ5GH6vUaFoyCunHPip4X-9fLEnMEU_9v at mail.gmail.com>

James Wynn wrote:
> When Silk meets his parents in Mainframe, Horn writes:
>
> ? ?"You must, my lad." A man's voice, the voice of which Lemur had been
> ? ?a species of mockery. Looking up he saw the carved brown face from
> ? ?his mother's closet.
> ? ?"We're your parents." He was tall and blue-eyed. "Your fathers and
> ? ?your mothers."

Ah, OK - that (the first line) seems definitely to be Tussah speaking;
can it not be explained simply by saying that Lemur was imitating
Tussah?

>
> I see it differently. Wolfe says the best villians fall just _short_ of
> being a hero.
> ?From another POV, and for some people, I think he _was_ a hero. It's
> very relative.
> What was every other leader on Urth like at the time?

It would help to know something about the real afterlife in the _Sun_
universe. Are Typhon and Lemur in the kind of place from which the
Outsider might send them?
>

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