(urth) Wolfe at Dragon*Con (AEG)

[James Wynn]

Wolfe said:
>>> Here's some AEG grist for the mill. Wolfe talked about how much he 
>>> enjoyed Cassie in "An Evil Guest". This is how he described the end  of 
>>> the novel: "Cassie loved Bill Riese and at the end of the novel  she 
>>> goes to Woldercon to look for him."

I said:
>> if the person killed on the island were  Gideon Chase in disguise, it 
>> makes perfectly good sense.
>>[snip] It was Bill Reise  disguised as Gideon Chase who left for Woldercon 
>>at the end of AEG.  I'm not prepared to prove it is so, but I really 
>>*really* makes  sense that it would be that way.

Allan Anderson said:
> Ah, that *does* help me shed a bit of the "wtf" feeling that came over  me 
> at the end of my non-analytic reading of AEG. There are certainly  other 
> explanations, but this one is very interesting.

I'll have to re-read AEG with this in mind, but if Chase is running around 
disguised as Reise in order to earn his gold and to get close to Cassie, 
then it could be that this would help resolve some of the sense that Wally 
and Bill Reise are different people.

J.