Brother & Sister (Geographically speaking)Whorl

Sbearo having written: <I see what you mean about Bricco, but Brother and Sister live on an entirely different continent to Fava. She is finding children (different ones each time, by the sound of it) between Incanto's farm and Soldo.> I don't believe this is right. GREEN begins almost immediately (or very shortly) after the Brother and Sister encounter, and on the first page of his new narration Horn writes about the river that flows through Blanko thusly: "I do not think this is the same river we had in the south. This one flows fast but silently." He then talks (again) about the eight-legged crocodiles that infest the Nadi. Not sure how rivers run in the UK, but do you have any intercontinental ones? (Might make an interesting remake of HEART OF DARKNESS, pitched Hollywood style. "Man sets sail on the Thames, winds up in the deepest Africa.") Robert Borski *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

Ah, you're right. I had mentally transferred them to the river that runs through Pajarocu, probably because their life resembles that of the people of Shadelow more than it does the comparatively civilised (parts of) Main. Thanks for setting me straight. It was just for occasions like this that I chose my nickname! "Sbearo" ... a nice coining, thank you :-) And Google doesn't have any matches for it at all, whereas it has dozens of spurious Sun Bears, Sloth Bears (okay, not that spurious in this case), Sitting Bears, Standing Bears, and even a site selling llamas. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

John Roberson detailed:

Besides the fact that even if the inhumi felt a human compulsion as reverted back to beast status, once they regained beast status they would forget the human compulsion not to feed on other humans. Once again as animals they would naturally feed on humans and regain human nature. An endless cycle but not the destruction of inhumi or the salvation of humans. Dennis/Endy http://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.