Seal of Pas

Gerry Quinn · 28 Oct 2011, 15:43 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:43:58 +0100
Subject: (urth) Seal of Pas
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From: James Wynn 
> On 10/28/2011 10:07 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:

> > How could they *not* be in a unique arrangement?

> Horn and Nettle could have related that Silk saw a seal with a series of 
> numbers. The fact that they related those precise numbers could imply 
> that Silk told them what the numbers were, and that he could precisely 
> recall them.
Or that Horn and Nettle made them up.  They can?t know every detail that is related anyway.
I agree that Wolfe had the option of not citing specific numbers, and that the citing of numbers opens the possibility that they have some secret extra-narrative significance.  But they don?t have to be significant.
- Gerry Quinn
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