Short Story 117: Read Me

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 27 Jan 2015, 05:02 · from 2015-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:02:37 -0600
Subject: (urth) Short Story 117: Read Me
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On 1/26/2015 7:45 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Sure - in claw of the conciliator when jonas and sev are taken to the
> antechamber where people spend their whole lives waiting for sentencing,
> jonas starts quoting carroll about the knight sliding up the poker or
> something. I mention it in the Cat short story writeup as well i think
> ... even alluding to the cat as something like the chesire variety.  The
> mirrors of inire attain a quality like the looking glass in that scene
> as well, i think. Clearly jonas has read lewis carroll.


	"I used to read, aboard ship. Once I read a history. I don't suppose 
you know anything about it. So many chiliads have elapsed here."
	I said, "I suppose not."
	"So different from this, but so much like it too. Queer little customs 
and usages . . . some that weren't so little. Strange institutions. I 
asked the ship and she gave me another book."
	He was still perspiring, and I thought his mind was wandering. I used 
the square of flannel I carried to wipe my sword blade to dry his forehead.
	"Hereditary rulers and hereditary subordinates, and all sorts of 
strange officials. Lancers with long, white mustaches." For an instant 
the ghost of his old humorous smile appeared. "The White Knight is 
sliding down the poker. He balances very badly, as the King's notebook 
told him."



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

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