PEACE [Digest urth.v002.n002]

John Bishop · 12 Jun 1997, 13:55 · from urth-v0002.mbox · original

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From: John Bishop <jbishop at ch.hp.com>
Subject: (urth) PEACE [Digest urth.v002.n002]
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:55:11
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

  It was about three-quarters of the way through the book
  that I suddenly realized that the house was non-physical,
  and was essentially his memory ("What house has all the
  significant rooms from your life in it, in unchangable
  form?").

  It was at the end that I figured out he was already dead.
  The reference to the story of the Chinese youth was the
  clue.

  But where do you get murders from? =20

  I like the puzzle aspects of Wolfe's work, if I get them,
  but sometimes I don't (e.g., what's really going on in
  There_are_Doors?  Is the guy just a psychotic who isn't
  taking his medicine?).

           -John

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