Digest whorl.v001.n032

Jeff Meyers · 01 Feb 1997, 22:15 · from whorl-v0002.mbox · original

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From: Jeff Meyers <jeffmeyers at earthlink.net>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v001.n032
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 97 22:15:51
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[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

Mantis writes:

>=3DWe=3D may be sympathetic towards Q, but Horn knows that his Blue
>audience will react with utter horror.  So the inhumi really are the
>equivalent of vampires, even if Q is one who tried to be good.

Ah, yes, a marvelous new tack--a reader response analysis of the story! =20
Indeed, what response does Horne wish to evoke among his fellow citizens=20
of Blue?  That these inhumi are damn subtle creatures!  Don't trust them=20
or before you know it they'll lead you down the primrose path (or across=20
the air bridge to Green!).  Could THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN be propaganda?=20
 Does the text show evidence of an embedded secretive message, one that=20
might be understood only by the enlightened?  Does Horne hope to tease=20
out a new messianic figure like Silk?  One that will lead a new Exodus=20
from Blue? =20

Hierophant Meyers

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