Lupiverse(s)

Jeff Wilson · 12 Mar 2012, 18:55 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:55:41 -0500
Subject: (urth) Lupiverse(s)
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On 3/12/2012 8:52 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Furthermore, the other two Norns, Skuld and Verthandi are also
> referenced. This seems to me a clear example of Wolfe speaking in
> code to those who are (or become) familiar with the minutiae of
> Norse mythology. Urth is not the future. It is not the present.
> It is the past.

Urth is certainly the repository of things and personages past, and the 
name is appropriate, but that doesn't make it literally in our past. At 
the end of history, everything is in the past, and "urth" can refer to 
that as well. We might as well say that because the novel takes place 
where the days of our future are past, Urth is Blue, because Wolfe knew 
about the Moody Blues.

George Lucas pulled the same thing. "Darth Vader" is phonetic low German 
for "dark father", but the screenplays, shooting script, photos, and 
interviews from the period of the original film's development and 
release are otherwise clean of any sign that Vader was intended to be 
literally Luke's father.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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