Shadow + Claw

Peter Stephenson · 21 May 1998, 07:46 · from urth-v0011.mbox · original

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: Peter Stephenson <pws at ifh.de>
Subject: (urth) Shadow + Claw
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:46:31 +0200
Message-ID: <urth-v0011-0081 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0011/0081.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The Shadow here is VRT's (or the Shadow Child[ren] if you prefer): I
like `Roy' for the middle name for the Celtic clues.  However, given
the Proust links it would have been nice if it were Robert, which
would fit in with Proust's Robert de St. Loup (`Robert of St. Wolfe[e]').
Is there another Robert?  (Did someone else point this out?)

The Claw is the Claw:  is it possible that Severian finds a real
live thorn in Citadel, which comes back with him in Urth to become the
actual Claw?  Are there enough clues for or against to decide this?

pws

*More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/

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