(urth) AEG - Wally as angel = Inhumi?

[Rebecca Bushong-Taylor]

But what I want to know is, What happened to India Dempster?

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Stephen Hoy <stephenhoy at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  During the banshee banter, Cassie remarks that she'll be "going out with
> it" (p64). This identifies Wally Rosenquist as one of the 'sidh'. From
> various sources, we learn the sidh were widely perceived as fallen
> angels. The common folk referred to sidh euphemistically as Gray Neighbors,
> Good Neighbors, and other innocuous names designed to avoid provoking these
> entities.
>
> To reinforce this idea, note that Rosenquist as theatrical money-man
> is repeatedly called an angel:
>    "I've got this angel" p55
>    "India's got an angel" p60
>    "How long has India had this angel?" p61
>    From behind Ebony, Tabbi murmured, "I thought she was bringing the
> angel." p62
>    "Let's have a real standing 'O' for a real angel--Mr. Wallace
> Rosenquist!" p66
>    "our angel Wally Rosenquist" p75
>
> Now look at the etymology of the name Rosenquist, a Norse
> double-nominative = rose + twig, which brings to mind both vines and
> propagation by graft. Think about this in conjunction with the recent
> discussion of Neighbors and Inhumi, haploid/diploid/quadriploid chromosomes,
> and trees & vines in the Short Sun. Some remarks in the first
> chapter about the advanced biology of Woldercan led me to speculate that
> Wally may be a biological creation, a grafted propagation of some sort. His
> name is a suggestive hint in line with this speculation. To draw the
> parallel closer, angels and Inhumi both fly.
>
> In AEG, we're led to believe that Bill/Wally are one and the same, but
> there are a few indications they may be two distinct entities, for example,
> Cassie saw Bill Reis/Wally Rosenquist in the audience during the final
> performance of The Red Spot, but when questioned later, whoever it was that
> answered denied being present. Maybe Wally is a propagation of Bill.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20090507/105075c6/attachment-0003.htm>