Coldhouse Banshee

StoneOx17 · 27 Aug 2002, 15:44 · from urth-v0208.mbox · original

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From: StoneOx17 at aol.com
Subject: Re: (urth) Coldhouse Banshee
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:44:13 -0400
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Blattid (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes) writes:

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> Good heavens ... Stone Ox has brought up a marvellous correspondence,=20

Thank you.

> and then missed something that ... well, I guess it isn't obvious=20
> because I never saw it before either, but somehow it jumped out of=20
> his posting at me:

It wasn't obvious to me.  I came across these correspondences by assuming t=
hat Julius was the devil (as suggested by Robert Borski's essay, "The Devil=
 his Due.") and once I made this connection, the i
> Jack stays in the barn haunted by the banshee three nights. =20

> ...as does the coldhouse prank victim (Friday, Saturday,=20
> Sunday nights).

That's wonderful.  It's either a remarkable coincidence, or something very =
clever on the part of Wolfe.

On another topic, I just saw that an interview with Gaiman and Wolfe is com=
ing out in the September issue of Locus, and that an excerpt from it has al=
ready been posted at  =20
http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Issue09/GaimanWolfe.html -- even the brief exc=
erpt is very interesting. =20

--Stone Ox=20

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