(urth) New Wolfe Story at Subterranean Press

[don doggett]

--- Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> The Robinsons are fleshly:
> 
> "Either the Robinsons could not have a child of
> their own, or were  
> unwilling to undertake the travail and expense of a
> real child."

Not necessarily. Wolfe's best trick is to make us make
assumptions. The only statement of fact in the
sentence is that the Robinsons don't have "real"
children. It's suspiciously vague in the face of this
Ro- pattern of the names. Even undertaking the travail
and expense of a real child has no concrete meaning.
Birthing a child? Procuring a child? Cloning one? All
of these could be an expensive ordeal. 

Don

The Evangelists: a Lesser Apocrypha                                                                        http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=178109961


       
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