(urth) Some Pirate Freedom thoughts and questions
Dan
autarch at vippn.com
Tue Dec 4 07:25:35 PST 2007
Fernando wrote:
>:-) I think the temptation to be smarter than Wolfe and to see hidden
>connections everywhere is with us always...
Lol. Actually reading Wolfe makes me feel very stupid and uneducated and
it's through the effort of discovering these hidden connections that I feel
slightly less stupid. :)
And I'm sure they are there, all writers know far more about their
characters and story that ever makes it onto the printed page.
paul witcover wrote:
> The similarity of "wiseguy" and "Lesage" led me to wonder if that
> pirate is really another iteration of Chris, and whether Chris's
> father is Lesage -- and there might be more than one temporal loop
> involved -- but when I saw Wolfe at the World Fantasy Convention, I
> asked him explicitly about this, and his response was "No, I hadn't
> thought of that. You're smarter than I am." I protested the
> contrary!
Like any good magician, Wolfe won't reveal any of his "tricks" lest it
tarnish the glamor. Instead, he pays the questioner a kind compliment to
sidetrack the discussion. Very clever!
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