Digest whorl.v005.n023

Michael Richman · 05 Jun 1997, 20:37 · from whorl-v0005.mbox · original

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From: Michael Richman <mrichman at cybernex.net>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v005.n023
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 20:37:05
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]


>> And I don't think that Wolfe uses language in a sort of simple=20
>> equivalence such as gammadion =3D screwdriver and nothing more; after al=
l,=20
>> he could have invented some science fictinal gobbledygook for futuristic=20
>> tools like they do on Star Trek (induced phase decoupler or some such=20
>> nonsense).
>

 see below=20

>All priests carry them and have been taught to use them to fix Windows.
>They get fancier with rank---Quetzal's is jeweled. Incus fixes Hammerstone
>with one, and his non-priestly black mechanic pals doubtless wield them
>too, possibly illegally or at least heretically.=20

Quetzal doesn't fix Hammerstone with a gammadion but with something called
an "optisynapter" IIRC.  The Quetzal was able to repair Maytera Marbles arm
while Silk was not.


Michael Richman
380 Homans Av
Closter, NJ  07624
mrichman at bc.cybernex.net

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