Urth Net
Confusing passage
2 quoted lines
From On Blue's Waters, Ch. 5 section 6:
Even Hoof and Horn [sic], who must just be entering young manhood now will someday be as old as Marrow and Patera Remora.....in fifty years, Horn and Hide [sic] may well be dead....These words, which I pen with so little thought- or hope- or expectation- may possibly endure long beyond that, endure for two centuries or even three...
I am confused by this. I could guess the first [sic] is a way of forshadowing that Horn's self-identity will come into question later. But what about the second [sic]? Is Hide's identity also to come into question? Or does the second [sic] also refer to Horn in the clause?
FWIW, I found the final sentence interesting in comparison with Gene Wolfe's answer in the Lawrence Person interview which was done shortly after Short Sun was written:
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LP: Final question! Homer, of course, is one of those writers whose work is remembered, at least in his case, thousands of years after his death. How well do you think your own work will be remembered?
GW: Oh Lord! (long pause) Goodness sake. (pause) This is really, really a mean question that you're asking.....Uh, I don't know. Two or three hundred years, possibly. It's very hard to answer that without being either falsely modest or braggadocios. I would guess, a couple, three hundred years. That's only a guess.