(urth) Father Inire Theory cont.
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 11:13:52 PST 2010
> Gerry Quinn-
> Which there are. Some things in Wolfe's stories are ambiguous, others
> are rather certain. Triskele is a dog, or a dog-shaped aquastor. It
> is very unlikely that he is a cat. It is even more certain that he is
> not an elephant. An interpretation that requires Triskele to be an
> elephant has a high likelihood of being wrong.
Your central point is taken that there are known knowns. But,
technically Triskele might be /merely/ an alien creature that is
analogous to dogs. If you saw it, you might prefer the term "bear" (
suspect you would). I know it probably makes no difference narratively
and little allusively, but it does exemplify Wolfe's forest of mirrors.
u+16b9
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