Pike/Quetzal, and other ?s

Reusch · 08 Apr 1997, 21:27 · from whorl-v0004.mbox · original

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From: Reusch <newsun at freeway.net>
Subject: (whorl) Pike/Quetzal, and other ?s
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 97 21:27:00
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

Hi everyone.
I've been lurking awhile, sifting through the archives. You people take=20
your Wolfe seriously! I've had a lot of fun reading your thoughts, ideas,=20
speculations, arguments, jabs.=20
One point that I've been having trouble swallowing, though, is the old=20
Pike's ghost scenario. I don't buy either argument that's been posted=20
here; that it was either Quetzal or a computer image. What would be the=20
point of either? I think that there's more to this scene, some tie=20
between Quetzal and Pike. I think that it was Quetzal flying out the=20
window, and then Silk sees Pike. Wolfe is linking the one with the other.=20
Why, I haven't figured out yet.
Mantis, great job witht the Moses link. It's been a while since I've read=20
Joseph Campbell, and longer still since I've read the story of Moses, but=20
is there any similar event in Moses' story? Was Moses visited by his=20
father, mentor, or the devil?
I hate to stir this issue up once again, especially without some better=20
answers, but I'm rereading the books with an eye on Pike and Quetzal.
A couple of questions have come up during my reread:

Does Rose have a daughter? We know that she has a son, but what about=20
1:69hc?
"At times Maytera Rose, kneeling before her daughter's image,..."

How did Silk kill the white headed one? He was knocked unconscious,=20
possibly with a concussion, and then wakes up to find the bird dead.

And what's up with that scene with Urus and the Trivigaunti officer,=20
where they rendezvous for a clandestine meeting? And how would Horn have=20
known of it to write about it, and why?

May every god favor you.
Vance

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