The Wizard - questions

stilskin · 03 Jan 2005, 11:26 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: acronus at yahoo.com (stilskin)
Date: Mon Jan  3 11:26:39 2005
Subject: (urth) The Wizard -  questions
In-Reply-To: <005b01c4f1c6$d085ba20$4c1e4b0a at vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>
Message-ID: <20050103192634.53344.qmail at web20025.mail.yahoo.com>

I'm afraid I can't agree.  I think you are overhasty
to assume that Able is bound for Kleos simply because
Michael comes from there, although I don't say you are
wrong either.  I'd like to see more evidence in the
text of where he is bound.  Also, if you look back to
The Knight, you will find that Michael goes to
Aelfrice in quest of "that far-famed knight, Sir Able
of the High Heart."  At the end of The Wizard, when
Sir Able reports that Michael has come for him, that
is the end of the journey that Michael interrupted
briefly beside the pool in Mythgarthr.   It is clear
from the beginning of The Wizard Knight that the book
(letter to Ben) is being written from Aelfrice.

--- James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:

> >Actually, Able doesn't ascend . . . at least not at
> >the end of the novel. Following his disobedience of
> >the Valfather, Able (with Disiri) descends to
> >Aelfrice, which is where Michael comes to get him
> for
> >some mission we do not know.  I'm very curious
> about
> >this mission and where it takes place.  I
> half-suspect
> >we're supposed to think it takes place in America.
> 
> Since Michael has been sent from Kleos, that is
> surely to where they are
> going. The "great knight", Sir Able of the High
> Heart, did not yet exist
> when Able first met Michael. First Able had to win
> his sword, spend 20 years
> in Skai, and free Mythgarthr and Aelfrice from the
> tyranny of their "lower
> dragons'.
> 
> ~ Crush
> 
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