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Joshua A. Solomon · 09 Dec 1999, 20:55
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From: "Joshua A. Solomon" <j.solomon at ucl.ac.uk> Subject: (whorl) stuff Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 20:55:44 +0000 Message-ID: <whorl-v0010-0197 at digest.urth.net> X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0010/0197.shtml MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="MS_Mac_OE_3027617744_7038322_MIME_Part" > THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3027617744_7038322_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Finally got my hands on OBW! Does Krait, a naturally base creature, atone for his original sin (sucking blood) by helping others? Does Horn/Silk shrive him? Is that when he divulges his secret? I suspect that Remora et al. were hip to both the lander's real destination and the inhumu's secret when they went to Lizard. If the Neighbors reveal themselves to everybody a la Westwind, Remora et al. might have learned these secrets from them. Alternatively, Remora might have shriven Quetzal as Horn apparently shrove Krait. Since the inhumu apparently absorb the attitudes (as well as the intellegence) of their dinners, perhaps Remora et al. are sending Horn to "poison" the inhumu with kindness. (Maybe the think he's kind of dumb, too.) Also: p. 368: "felwolf" How can a one-armed girl (?) catch fish with her "hands?" Pajaroku, the city that's not really there, reminds me of A Solar Labyrinth, a maze that's not really there. p. 246: "there are men here where land is free for the working who want land, and more and better land, and others to work it for them, and they always believe that someone else's land is better. They would crush the small farmers if I let them." Um, O.K. Gene. Why not simply have Oreb say, "Conglomerates Bad!" Finally, what made Horn act like a bastard on p. 286, or was he just pretending? (In that case, why was he pretending?) bee -- Joshua A. Solomon Institute of Ophthalmology 11 - 43 Bath Street London EC1V 9EL Voice: (44) 20 7608 6924 Fax: (44) 20 7608 6846 j.solomon at ucl.ac.uk http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/personnel/jsolomon --MS_Mac_OE_3027617744_7038322_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>stuff</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=3D"#FFFFFF"> <FONT SIZE=3D"4"><TT>Finally got my hands on OBW!<BR> <BR> Does Krait, a naturally base creature, atone for his original sin<BR> (sucking blood) by helping others? Does Horn/Silk shrive him?<BR> Is that when he divulges his secret?<BR> <BR> I suspect that Remora et al. were hip to both the lander's<BR> real destination and the inhumu's secret when they went to Lizard.<BR> <BR> If the Neighbors reveal themselves to everybody a la Westwind,<BR> Remora et al. might have learned these secrets from them.<BR> <BR> Alternatively, Remora might have shriven Quetzal as Horn apparently<BR> shrove Krait.<BR> <BR> Since the inhumu apparently absorb the attitudes (as well as the<BR> intellegence) of their dinners, perhaps Remora et al. are sending<BR> Horn to "poison" the inhumu with kindness. (Maybe the think he's = kind<BR> of dumb, too.)<BR> <BR> Also:<BR> <BR> p. 368: "felwolf"<BR> <BR> How can a one-armed girl (?) catch fish with her "hands?"<BR> <BR> Pajaroku, the city that's not really there, reminds me of A Solar Labyrinth= ,<BR> a maze that's not really there.<BR> <BR> p. 246: "there are men here where land is free for the working who wan= t land, <BR> and more and better land, and others to work it for them, <BR> and they always believe that someone else's land is better.<BR> They would crush the small farmers if I let them." Um, O.K. Gene.<BR> Why not simply have Oreb say, "Conglomerates Bad!"<BR> <BR> Finally, what made Horn act like a bastard on p. 286, or was<BR> he just pretending? (In that case, why was he pretending?)<BR> <BR> bee<BR> -- <BR> Joshua A. Solomon<BR> Institute of Ophthalmology<BR> 11 - 43 Bath Street<BR> London EC1V 9EL<BR> Voice: (44) 20 7608 6924<BR> Fax: (44) 20 7608 6846<BR> <FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U>j.solomon at ucl.ac.uk<BR> http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/personnel/jsolomon<BR> </U></FONT><BR> </TT></FONT> </BODY> </HTML> --MS_Mac_OE_3027617744_7038322_MIME_Part-- *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/ *To leave the list, send "unsubscribe" to whorl-request at lists.best.com *If it's Wolfe but not Long Sun, please use the URTH list: urth at lists.best.com
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