Urth Net
E&G revisited
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On 3-30-99 Christopher Culver <crculver at aol.com> wrote:
Alice says that Baldanders represents the cacogens, and I must humbly disagree. It would seem to me that the cacogens are represented by the two demons. In their little lecture to the Autarch, they speak of the new continents to be raised by the New Sun, especially of the precious metals soon
to be exposed. Wolfe, in his role as translator, speculates that it is the possible trade of metals (as well as food and slave labour) which give the cacogens a reason to communicate with Urth. Also, the joy of the demons at the coming of the New Sun is furthermore tied to the Hierodules because, according to "The Key to the Universe" in volume four, the New Sun itself is a tool of the Hieros, used to "shape" humanity. Does this hold water?<<
Bolstering your argument: In chapter XLVIII of Urth Sev recalls that scene from the play and writes:
"I, who boast of forgetting nothing, had forgotten that it was the demons who had spoken so."
Roy