claw blood

maa32 · 18 Nov 2002, 15:57 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) claw blood
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:57:35 -0700
Message-ID: <urth-v0211-2147 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0211/2147.txt.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Of course, in talking about perceptions of the Claw's mutability, I was=20
talking about my perceptions as I read it. It has nothing to do with textua=
l=20
rightness or wrongness; you can't argue with someone's progression of ideas=
. =20
It's impossible.  Those were simply the thoughts I remember having the firs=
t=20
time I read the New Sun.  (Remember, too, that I was in the 5th grade or so=
)=20
Of course there are other powers besides temporal powers - powers to alter =
and=20
transmute at the cellular level, like the deformed hand in UotNS and the wa=
ter=20
to wine in CotC.
As far as Sev's DNA on the claw, I thought there was a scene in Urth of the=20
New Sun where he bleeds on the claw from his forehead. (Trying to use it on=20
himself?) That would have been the claw that becomes the claw of the=20
conciliator; I could be mistaken; it might be later (or earlier) in the tim=
e=20
stream in Citadel, in which case I would be wrong.  Just perceptions.  That=
's=20
all.  My point was that simple mysteries have multiple interpretive=20
possibilities that change over time, especially in Wolfe.
Marc Aramini

--=20

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net