Horn the NarratorWhorl

Kevin Maroney said of the surprise of finding Horn the narrator:

I had the same reaction. I also felt I had missed some clues along the way. Did I? I must have, for surely Wolfe would not have switched to first person Horn at the end in order to provide a vehicle for a new series. How does one go from Silk's epiphany to Horn narrating the tale? I'll have read more carefully when I again reread the Long Sun series. Terry Nickolette *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

Kevin Maroney said of the surprise of finding Horn the narrator:

I had the same reaction. I also felt I had missed some clues along the way. Did I? I must have, for surely Wolfe would not have switched to first person Horn at the end in order to provide a vehicle for a new series. How does one go from Silk's epiphany to Horn narrating the tale? I'll have read more carefully when I again reread the Long Sun series. Terry Nickolette *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

(Ah, this bit of my last post belonged here.) The first paragraph of Nightside identifies the enlightenment narrative as the way Silk "talked about it afterward" -- so that tells us where Horn gets it, and is a very subtle clue that everything we read about Silk's inner life may be from how he related it to others. -Rostrum *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.