three fingers chomp

maa32 · 18 Mar 2003, 17:08 · from urth-v0303.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) three fingers chomp
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:08:26 -0700
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I read the ending of Three Fingers not so much as a picture of the main=20
characters insanity but as a picture of confusion - I think he acts to bite=20
off the finger of the villainous toon/executive, who has both real and myth=
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identities, thus making the glove both white and red with blood, and=20
accounting for the different number of fingers.  Doesn't anyone else think =
he=20
is biting a finger off at the end?  It's not like we've never seen cannibal=
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in Wolfe before.

Marc Aramini

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