Digest whorl.v010.n121Whorl

No, Alex. And since I think of you and Adam as the two bright young things of the list, and since you've both got a month or so to wait until you get your grubby little paws on IGJ, I will set you the assignment to prove me wrong. The "action" of LS, the populist political movement that eventually catapults Silk into the Calde's seat, and saddles him with Hy, as well, was masterminded and manipulated by--until circumstances decreed otherwise: ready? Dr. Crane for reasons that you two can either figure out or repudiate. (heh, heh, heh!!!) -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

(In response to Alga's revelation of the mastermind in Long Sun): Aha. I ruled out Crane because I thought you were speaking more generally--his -initial- meeting with Silk is "accidental" (as accidental as anything is--the theme of prophecy*, all true, I'm beginning to think, runs even stronger in LS than in NS), but after that he certainly does manipulate things and is behind the political events. I can post my version of the evidence for this if anybody isn't convinced, although I thought that part was common agreement on the list. Can I remain a bright young thing five years from now when I'm STILL a grad student? * like the prophetic dream in Chap. 4 of Lake that I'd completely forgotten.