(urth) The Sorcerer's House Questions (*Major Spoilers*)

[Thomas Bitterman]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Granted, a lot of that is thematic rather than plot-level details. But I
> guess I just have a hard time believing that such a careful writer as Wolfe
> would create a narrator whose primary biographical signifier from the
> beginning of the story is "released prisoner convicted of fraud" and then
> have us listen to him describe an utterly outrageous story of magic and luck
> with total credulity when he's also cramming the narrative full of overtones
> about how everyone could potentially be conning everyone else, from the
> newspaper people to the real estate agents to the jeweler trying to lowball
> Bax on the coin to the psychic with fake crystal balls.
>

Mr. Brewer is better at explaining than I am, certainly.  Severian tortures,
Latro forgets.  Why wouldn't a liar lie?
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