(urth) lots of stuff

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Fri Jul 9 15:42:27 PDT 2010


>
>>> When he mentioned a monkey, he might not have remembered
>>> every other time he mentioned a monkey.
>>>
>
> Wolfe does make mistakes. And he can inadvertently reuse ideas. A famous
> instance that he noted himself is that his protagonist in "The Other
> Dead Man" and the villain in "An Evil Guest" have the same name. And it
> is not uncommon for writers to have an inclination for particular
> adjectives and analogies.
>
> But if this is the case in this instance, I would think there would be
> examples of Wolfe comparing characters to monkeys in other stories?
> Especially since he did it three times in this one novel. Can anyone
> think of some others?

Mantis mentioned that Sev describes his pouch as manskin on one place and
doeskin in another.




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