So Where DID the Guard go?

Marc Aramini · 05 May 2014, 05:53 · from 2014-May.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 22:53:25 -0700
Subject: (urth) So Where DID the Guard go?
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Or Wolfe re-read New Sun in preparation for writing Short Sun and thought
shoot ... where the heck did that guard go?

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Andrew Mason
<andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com>wrote:

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>
> I'm sure that _Short Sun_ (specifically _In Green's Jungles_) does indeed
> tell us where the guard went; but I'm equally sure that this was not the
> answer Wolfe had in mind when he wrote _New Sun_; he wasn't planning _that_
> far ahead. So we can still ask what his original intention was. (The
> presence of the citizen volunteers suggests that either the guard is  quite
> often absent, or his presence is ineffective.)
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