Just a weird thought re: Peace

Dan'l Danehy Oakes · 17 May 1998, 15:48 · from urth-v0011.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy Oakes" <DDANEHYO at us.oracle.com>
Subject: (urth) Just a weird thought re: Peace
Date: 17 May 98 15:48:51
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Hi --

Just been rereading PEACE.  Fascinated by the structure (a=20
story of a man haunted by stories telling stories about
storytellers tellign stories of haunts).  Nothing much new
to offer up, but for this:  it occurs to me that Weer's=20
Aunt Olivia -- after keeping three suitors at arms'=20
length for who-knows-how-long -- seems to have decided,=20
in the end, to marry the man who told the best story. =20
Sound like anyone from, say, CITADEL...?

(Actually, the party where Smart tells his tale reminds=20
me not a little of Lord Byron's famous house party that=20
led ultimately to the publication of Polidori's VAMPYRE=20
and Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN: A bunch of men and one=20
woman with very "advanced" ideas sitting about telling
ghost stories...  Any odds whether Wolfe is likely to=20
have had this in mind or no?)

Weer says Smart is the central character of his yarn;
I think it's Olivia.

--Roach

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