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Adam Stephanides22 Jun 2000, 09:46original as archived

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Alex David Groce wrote: On the prophecy thing--does anyone in the books ever attempt to make a prophecy (augury) or even have a dream that doesn't foreshadow events to come? I think that although there's no time-travel going on here, lots of things seem as locked in as in BOTNS.

Have any of Horn's dreams in OBW turned out to be prophetic yet? I remember thinking that Horn spent rather a lot of time telling us his dreams, and none of them had any obvious relevance (except for the one in the pit which may have been Silk resurrecting him). But I only read the book once, so I could be wrong. --Adam *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

Alex David Groce22 Jun 2000, 10:00original as archived

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Have any of Horn's dreams in OBW turned out to be prophetic yet? I remember thinking that Horn spent rather a lot of time telling us his dreams, and none of them had any obvious relevance (except for the one in the pit which may have been Silk resurrecting him). But I only read the book once, so I could be wrong.

Well, not that I recall, but then in Long Sun many of the more significant "foretold" events don't occur until later books (and some aren't really clear until a second reading--the prophecy is highly metaphorical, but clearly intentional at least at Wolfe's level).

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 -- Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu) Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

David Duffy22 Jun 2000, 23:24original as archived

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Alex David Groce wrote: Have any of Horn's dreams in OBW turned out to be prophetic yet? I remember thinking that Horn spent rather a lot of time telling us his dreams, and none of them had any obvious relevance (except for the one in the pit which may have been Silk resurrecting him). But I only read the book once, so I could be wrong. --Adam

Horn says a tall man with a big nose or a spider: therefore that dream was a favour from a good neighbour. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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