(urth) The Outsider
Gerry Quinn
gerryq at indigo.ie
Tue Dec 21 07:32:33 PST 2010
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
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