Short Story 82: The God and His Man

jbarach at aol.com · 07 Aug 2014, 21:15 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: jbarach at aol.com (jbarach at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:15:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) Short Story 82: The God and His Man
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... and Gene Wolfe is fully capable of writing about sentient appliances, as "Frostfree" makes clear....

John

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From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com>
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I have a vague feeling he might be more like an appliance, like a sentient microwave or oven or something, but I have no real reason to believe this.

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Yves Meynard <meynard at videotron.ca> wrote:

When it comes to the god's name, I never read it as "Isid 1000 1000 E" but as "Isid Iooo Iooo E". "Iooo Iooo" would be a "double Iooo", or W, which would yield "ICWE" as the original name, whose meaning has been corrupted. I find no obvious candidates on the web for the meaning of this acronym. "Integrated Circuit" was once a common meaning of IC. Does W stand in for Weapon? Or is there a Wolf(e) involved?

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