(urth) The Wizard - questions

[stilskin]

Damn -- my apologies for missing that.  Something more
to think about . . .

P


--- Nathan Spears <spearofsolomon at yahoo.com> wrote:

> James Wynn said:
> 
> > The ambulance? That's Arthur Ormsby being taken to
> the hospital of course!
> > They found him in a coma possibly near death from
> hypothermia in that valley
> > where the Moss Aelf took him. Presumably, when he
> reaches the Most High God,
> > he will awake.
> 
> I've been mulling on this, and I think you're saying
> that he's going to wake up in
> America to discover that he's still a young boy,
> similar to King Peter and the rest
> in Narnia reverting to children after their
> adventures.  Honestly, if this is what
> Wolfe intends then I feel cheated.  Is this
> guesswork on your part or are there more
> clues pointing that direction in the text?  It feels
> a little small somehow.
> 
> Then again, it does point to a Christian
> interpretation of the text in small ways:
> "a great lord requires service from a knight," or
> however that went.
> 
> > it's probably
> > significant that Able never looks at himself while
> > wearing the helmet.
> 
> I thought it was very significant that he did look
> at himself while wearing the
> helmet.  He looked at his reflection in the water
> (seeing Disiri as a human woman
> next to him) just before he cast the helmet far out
> into it.  He sees himself as a
> knight and not a small boy, which was what he
> expected to see.
> 
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