vanished people=Hieros

Gerry Quinn · 07 Nov 2011, 16:58 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:58:43 -0000
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
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From: Marc Aramini 
> From: Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
 
> >I don?t get why you think it?s a moon at all, as distinct from a portal 
> >out of Yesod.  [Severian later ruminates on whether the White Fountain 
> >may be a similar portal, or even the same one.]
 
> Gerry, I feel like we've inexplicably switched places!  Doesn't sev say 
> it's a moon in that quote (and isn't that your normal preferred method 
> of definitive narrational statement)?  but yes, clearly a portal from yesod,
>  too.  the moon is a balloon.

> > Somewhere behind or before us, above us
> > or below us, was a wide circle of light, spinning,
> > frantically spinning, a thing like Lune, if such a thing as
> > a moon of the most brilliant white can be imagined. Gunnie
> > fluttered across it once or twice before she was lost in the
> > diamond-decked blackness. (And once it seemed to me?and
> > still seems when I call that frantic memory forth?that I
> > saw Apheta's face as she leaned from that moon.) "

I don?t know where you get the idea about ?my preferred method of definitive narrational statement?.  I?ve repeatedly pointed out that Wolfe?s characters ? just like real people - often use metaphor which should *not* be taken literally.  And here he starts with plain old simile, even if he finishes up with metonymy or metalepsis or whatever.  Same difference.  He?s not saying it?s a moon.  

- Gerry Quinn





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