The Wizard - questions -- answers (spoiler)

Russell Wodell · 03 Jan 2005, 19:18 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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: wrustle at telus.net (Russell Wodell)
Date: Mon Jan  3 19:18:48 2005
Subject: (urth) The Wizard -  questions -- answers (spoiler)
References: <20050103193037.54954.qmail at web50303.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <001b01c4f20c$21868590$63fc06cf@rw9s6no3t0dhzd>

What would be Sir Garvaon's motive for killing Gilling? (Rhyme 
unintentional) And why would Wolfe conceal this for so long?

For this and other reasons, I am fairly certain that Iddn is the murderer. 
She agreed to marry Gilling to achieve power, which she maintains with her 
army of giantesses, but killed him because sexual congress would mean her 
death either in coitus or in giving birth to a giant, as Wolfe makes 
gruesomely explicit.

If I'm right, this further underlines the increasing strain of misogyny in 
late Wolfe...

Russell

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