(urth) PEACE: One Devil

[Dave Tallman]

>(And that possible Clue connection is interesting as well.  It is a
>murder mystery, after all.)

To press on the analogy, Clue players must visit specific rooms in a mansion
in order to invoke memories to confirm or contradict their theories. They cannot access
the central room where the truth is hidden.

Likewise, Weer says he lives on the periphery of his house and that he never goes into
his den (Den, himself) p. 10. A similar point is made by the waiting-room music,
"A Life for the Czar" by Glinka (p. 3). In this opera, a Russian peasant is forced
by an invading army to lead them to the secret hiding place of the Czar. Pretending to
comply, he leads them on a wild-goose-chase through swamps and thickets until they
are completely demoralized. It fits my experience trying to follow Weer in this
novel!