(urth) Stingray

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 15:57:00 PST 2008


> No, of course not, it's a silly idea. It's not as if Wolfe ever refers to
> puppetry in his stories.

In The Book of the Short Sun, Horn remembers the following from his 
childhood:

"I once had a toy, a little wooden man in a blue coat who was moved by 
strings. When I played with him, I made him walk and bow, and spoke for him. 
I practiced until I thought myself very clever. One day I saw my mother 
holding the two sticks that held his strings, and my little wooden man 
saluting my youngest sister much more cleverly than I could have made him do 
it, and laughing with his head thrown back, then mourning with his face in 
his hands. I never spoke of it to my mother, but I was angry and ashamed."
On Blue's Waters, pg. 158

Soon he after he was assaulted by the triple-jawed leatherskin---an obvious 
reference to Pinnochio's Dog-fish.

J.





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