Peace write up part 2

Marc Aramini · 02 May 2014, 19:08 · from 2014-May.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 12:08:21 -0700
Subject: (urth) Peace write up part 2
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On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> A couple of things.
>
> First, Marc, thank you for all the work you've put into this, and into all
> the story writeups you've done. I don't often comment because I have very
> little to say, but I really enjoy them.
>
> Second, I want to bring out something that has haunted me about PEACE
> since I first read it - its relationship to tBotNS. Nobody seems to notice
> that a major element of the plot of PEACE is a false book of Gold.
> Coincidence? I think not; rather, PEACE I think, is a kind of undeveloped
> negative of tBotNS in many ways.
>
> Or - given the order of writing - the other way around.
>
> Obviously, typical Wolfe themes play parts in both books, but I think
> there's more. Not having either in front of me at the moment I can't go
> into too much detail, but I want to offer it as something possibly worth
> discussing.
>
>
>
> Thanks Dan'l.  Gold's counterfeit books and talk of all the famous
swindles in the art world and otherwise certainly make imitation a major
theme.  The libraries echo quite a bit in Fifth Head, Peace, and New Sun as
well - in Peace, Weer used to actually frolic in the upper rooms because
his family owned it (they came on hard times).

As a side note, when I first thought of my Latro story, I was going to have
Mr. Gold write a forged ending for Latro and try to sell it, but I settled
on a much more supernatural plot device, discarding Apu'at/wepwawet as the
villain as well.
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