Short Story 67: The Marvelous Brass Chess Playing Automaton

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 18 Jul 2014, 06:42 · from 2014-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 01:42:27 -0500
Subject: (urth) Short Story 67: The Marvelous Brass Chess Playing
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On 7/18/2014 12:57 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> I don't think the geography is more like hell than any atmospheric
> warming, post nuclear war society would be

it being parts of different places can mean it is a subjective or 
reconstructed place, based on imperfect recollections or from the lives 
of different inmates - this would provide a nice level of parallelism 
with Hans's delusional world in his cell, being tormented by the Devil 
(who is) Himself

or perhaps the jailer narrator is the Devil's self-insertion into the 
hellish false sub-creation - he is the keeper of the keys after all

or the jailer could be Wolfe's self-insertion, as he is the story teller 
*and* the keeper of the keys that would let Hans out of his cell, just 
as Wolfe has the keys to the story puzzle after all

or both - it would not be the first time Wolfe casts himself as a devil, 
after all

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

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