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

[James Wynn]

>
>> I think simian references to Inire and Rudesind are significant, but I
>> never paid them much mind before. Now they *do* appear obvious, don't 
>> they?
>
> On 7/9/2010 2:40 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> But again - what do you mean when you say they're obvious?
>

I mean that they they are *clearly*, almost to the point of 
self-evidence, intended by the author to signal something. Or as Roy put 
it today in the initial post of the "Monkey Business" thread:

> That some characters in the Urth Cycle are compared, in some way, with
> monkeys is beyond dispute. Since Wolfe wrote it, I think almost everyone
> will agree that the simian markers signify *something*.
>    

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