color change in azoth and other stuff

James Jordan · 31 Jan 2002, 15:41 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at home.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) color change in azoth and other stuff
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:41:25 -0600
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At 10:05 PM 1/30/2002, you wrote:

>I wonder if the trees are something unique to the Short Sun books?  Did Wo=
lfe
>already have trees planned as important, possibly sentient beings from the
>beginning of Nightside the Long Sun? There is that odd scene when Silk is
>breaking in to Blood's house where he feels like someone is watching him f=
rom
>the trees, but I thought it was an owl or possibly an inhumu.  Who can say=
? I
>think that the beginning of In Green's Jungles, echoing Peace, clues us in=
 to
>pay attention every time a tree pops up: Elmo has fallen.)

Well, remember that Quetzal slithers onto a tree at one point (in=20
Nightside?). There's  "serpent in Eden" motif here that is very obvious,=20
given that we're in the Church -- though Quetzal seems a kind of "converted=20
serpent." Someone watching Silk from a tree would most likely be Quetzal.=20
Of course, on your thesis, the tree might be more than a tree also.

Nutria


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