TWK questions and answers

harlekin at earthlink.net · 04 Jan 2005, 10:57 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: harlekin at earthlink.net (harlekin at earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jan  4 10:57:16 2005
Subject: (urth) TWK questions and answers
Message-ID: <28142494.1104865034436.JavaMail.root at huey.psp.pas.earthlink.net>

I think he is linking them thematically to the undines of Urth.  The giantesses' ancestors are the Giants of winter and old night, who GW makes clear are from deep space.
Don

I also noted that Wolfe didn't go out of his way to paint the giantesses as inhuman
and grotesque the way he did the giants, and that Able refers to one as if she were
attractive; I wonder if they don't look vastly different from the giants as well.

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