An Evil Guest

Antonin Scriabin · 23 May 2011, 17:28 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Antonin Scriabin)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:28:54 -0400
Subject: (urth) An Evil Guest
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Actually I just found a ton of stuff on Wolfe Wiki, that originated on this
list!  Sorry to bring up an old topic.  I think I am going to re-read An
Evil Guest ... hopefully I will pick up on more clues as to the identity of
Margaret.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Antonin Scriabin wrote:
> > I just joined the list, so I don't know if this topic has been talked
> about
> > in a ton of depth already.  I really enjoyed An Evil Guest!  It was the
> > first non-Solar Cycle books by Gene Wolfe that I had read, and I
> "tricked"
> > myself into not thinking it could be as clever and dense as those.  I
> have
> > been looking over it more and reading about different theories online,
> and
> > was wondering what you all thought of the idea that Margaret is Cassie
> from
> > the future (after the harpy-creatures leave her on the island to become
> > bedraggled and unrecognizable).  The way I understand it, future-Cassie
> goes
> > back in time by traveling in a hopper at immense speeds, and intends
> somehow
> > to manipulate the events experienced by present-Cassie in order to save
> > Reis.
>
> Antonin,
>
> Welcome to the list.
>
> Yes, this topic _has_ been talked about, and you might find some
> interesting debate on it in the archives. But the fact that someone
> else came up with it independently seems to offer some weight to the
> idea.
>
> --
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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