(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Wed Jul 7 08:56:08 PDT 2010


Gene's correct.

Every detail of UotNS may be worked out from information given in BotNS.

Perhaps not the names of characters, but I wouldn't be totally sure about
that.

.

> Lee, that is a very heartening quote from you.
>
> It  seems most of the undercarriage of this mailing list (both as a long
> time reader and recent participant) seems to be built around digging under
> the surface story.
>
> Maybe sometimes so much so that the forest is lost for the leaves on the
> trees.
>
> All of that said, I think Tzadkiel's appearance in UotNS (a volume Gene
> vehemently felt did NOT need to be written to help us understand the
> tetralogy) as a shapeshifter, is most positively a clue to a character
> (characters) in the first four volumes.
>
> What greater target for this than Inire? Who else? The other mask clues
> are revealed, but I think they serve as clues for the bigger mysteries,
> the ones Wolfe does not pander to us to answer, but uses clue-context
> (Agia/Agilus and the ribbons, chance encounters with Hildegrin, old
> Autarch making sneaky appearances, etc.).
>
> Anyhow, thank you for that analogy below, it brightened my day.
>
> ...ryan
>
>
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> For me, BotNS is built (NOT coincidentally) like House Absolute. There
>> is a main
>> structure and a second, secret house which has been built co-extensively
>> within it.
>> As the Secret House was constructed by Father Inire, I find it
>> appropriate to think
>> the secret structure of BotNS is centered on that character. If you
>> don't think there
>> are undiscovered mysteries in the story or don't find the search
>> enjoyable I can
>> understand that. The main story is really great and I spent years
>> enjoying it on that
>> level alone. But I always felt there was more.
>
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