Ask Gene Wolfe

Kieran Cleary · 13 May 1997, 11:43 · from whorl-v0005.mbox · original

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From: "Kieran Cleary" <kcleary at tinet.ie>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Ask Gene Wolfe
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:43:00 +0000
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

This is like the three wishes problem ("I wish for infinite wishes").=20
I guess I'd have to ask "What was Typhon's purpose in launching the=20
Whorl and was the Blue/Green system the intended destination?"
Somebody will have to arbitrate as to whether that's two questions,=20
but I can't help feeling that Mr. Wolfe will be tricksy in his=20
answers.=20

BTW, Michael Richman: somewhere in tBotNS, Severian says "Have I said=20
that time turns our lies into truth?" referring to a number of similar
situations (his armiger disguise which made him seem "a pilgrim bound=20
for some vague northern shrine" amongst them).

Lasrach

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