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Explication of a few sma
↰ answers Damien Broderick
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30/03/98
16:59
RE>Explication of a few small points
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David Lebling wrote:
The "teratoid sign" in TBOTNS is our radiation warning symbol.
I thought of this too... but decided no. Our radiation symbol is black on yellow, and this is crimson. Also, its simple rotational symmetry is hardly "teratoid". Finally, as far as we know, the mirrors have nothing to do with radiation. I'm sure that nice Father Inire wouldn't show little girls around the chamber if they did.
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...Didn't
someone report (somewhere in the archives) that Wolfe has said that no one was murdered by Alden Weer in Peace?
In the online People interview, Wolfe was asked if Weer killed many of the other characters in the book and responded "Let me think about that... no. I don't think so, no."
Personally, I've never quite understood what the case against
Weer was, re the librarian and the plant worker. Ok, fabrication is a strong theme in the novel, but Weer himself doesn't seem to go out of his way to lie to us (or rather, to himself). Or am I missing something?
Damien, in your fascinating Peace essay a few posts back
you say that
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The name of the narrator of Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus, never given in that text, can be determined to be Gene Wolfe.
I'm not quite sure how you arrive at this. Could you
elaborate, please?