More on Silk-Horn's eating habits

Michael Straight · 19 Feb 2002, 13:54 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) More on Silk-Horn's eating habits
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:54:52 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Tom Foster wrote:

> One thing that struck me as slightly
> sinister is a sentence at the end of OBW. The narrator writes "Brother and
> Sister should have made me feel younger, as the girl did. I felt old
> instead". It isn't clear who the 'girl' he is referring to might be
> (Seawrack?), but I think that one could interpret this statement in sever=
al
> ways...

I think "the girl" there is the concubine the Rajan escaped with.  I
agree, that sentence does lend itself to sinister interpretation.

I don't think the narrator is an inhumu, but I'm starting to think Wolfe
meant to tease us with the suspicion that he might be.

-Rostrum


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