(urth) Finally read AEG

Andrew Mason andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 3 12:25:40 PST 2010


Jerry Friedman wrote|:

>> Q. When Cassie was watching the news, to get across the idea that the world of
>>this novel
>> was kind of fallen, the reporter interviewed a young man on the street who wore
>>a golden
>> phallus about his neck. Why did Wolfe choose to give the Autarch a cameo
>>appearance?
>
> Assuming the "obscene symbol" was a phallus, I still don't see him as the old
> Autarch.  The young man has an incipient beard.

Perhaps he was an earlier Autarch. Or perhaps he was the Autarch we
know, but before his testing.



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