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On Blue's Waters [Wolfe self-reference?][no actual spoilers]Whorl

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David_Lebling24 Sep 1999, 13:52originalas archived
On Blue's Waters [Wolfe self-reference?][no actual spoilers]
Horn runs through other versions of Silk's story (Horn's is The Book of the Long Sun, commonly known as The Book of Silk). One he mentions that he hasn't read was written by a man in the city of Urbasecundus, in English "Second City." Now, what large city with that sobriquet does Wolfe live near? (I've read two chapters and already have several mysteries to think about, and at least one from tBotLS elucidated -- more on that later.) --Dave Lebling (aka vizcacha) *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.
Alastair Reynolds25 Sep 1999, 10:00originalas archived
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Horn runs through other versions of Silk's story (Horn's is The Book of the Long Sun, commonly known as The Book of Silk). One he mentions that he hasn't read was written by a man in the city of Urbasecundus, in English "Second City." Now, what large city with that sobriquet does Wolfe live near? (I've read two chapters and already have several mysteries to think about, and at least one from tBotLS elucidated -- more on that later.) --Dave Lebling (aka vizcacha)
So where does GW live? Is it Chicago? Funnily enough, (because I only noticed it yesterday) in the Fifth Head of Cerberus, he mentions a book called Monday or Tuesday, leaning against a book on the assassination of Trotsky. Since the Trotsky book must have been written by Trotsky's bodyguard, Bernard "Limbo" Wolfe, I presume we're meant to conclude that the other book, if they're filed alphabetically, is by GW... Al *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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