(urth) The Outsider

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Craig Brewer" <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>
> And when Wolfe also admits that he knows many people have seen New Sun as 
> a Book
> of Gold itself, it seems to fit: it, too, is telling true myths in false 
> ways.
>
> So it seems like we have a very Christian (if slightly less Catholic) 
> notion of
> a book being a guide to revelation. But we also have the very Wolfean idea 
> that
> the book misleads in all kinds of ways.

It is perhaps coincidental that _Peace_ contains a Book of Gold (at least it 
was written by a character named Gold, and concerns gold).  It is a fake, 
and it leads to conflict and possibly murder...

- Gerry Quinn