(urth) Long Sun Laughs

[Son of Witz]

just reread it. it's not oblique. the monitor changed course.
but I don't think that alone is enough to deny that Quetzal might have  
been trying to send them to the Inumu (inhumi).
I'll be reading Short Sun with that question in mind.
How would he know he would die and be overruled by a servant? call it  
a lack of shrewdness on his deathbed.
anyway, unless some other answer supplants that, I'll stick with it,  
because it's loaded and appropriate to the themes.
~witz

On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:29 AM, John Watkins wrote:

> I thought Horn was explicit about the monitor changing course based  
> on the corpse.
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org 
> > wrote:
>
> On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:23 AM, John Watkins wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org 
> > wrote:
> My biggest question throughout the whole book was the nature of  
> Quetzal. I find it interesting that the heads of this church are a  
> feathered serpent and an eel. I can't help but relate this to my  
> feelings (which I've expressed here before, and apologize in advance  
> to the faithful) that the Catholic Church has long been usurped by  
> vampires of sorts.  I'm sure I'm not alone in that feeling, and I  
> find it extremely provocative that a devout Catholic would set  
> things up that way. more testament to Wolfe's gutsiness.  I can't  
> help but feel that Quetzal was shepherding his flock to Green as  
> food. talk about a blood sacrifice.  I assume it was him who got  
> Teasel early on.
>
> I dunno.  Had Quetzal ever seen the corpse of one of his own kind?   
> If so, he'd presumably know what would happen and pick the planet he  
> didn't want them to go to, right?
>
> So, you're saying the Monitor decided, after seeing his corpse, to  
> change course.  i thought that was vague, but yeah...
> but did he know he was gonna die? I should read that again.
>
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