(urth) Rudesind/Inire/Lunar Picture

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Thu Jul 29 11:57:35 PDT 2010


On 7/29/2010 1:22 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> I forget where Wolfe discusses it. I thought 2 of them spoke in blank
> verse.
>
> Either way, Wolfe puts much thought into his dialog: diction,
> vocabulary, rhythm, colloquialisms. His characters, as Shakespeare put
> it somewhere, "unfold themselves" through speech. By their speech ye may
> know them, every time. Except when they fake another's.
>
> We disagree on the meaning of
>
> "he is one of those few who have chosen to cast their lots entirely with
> humanity, remaining on Urth as a human being."
>
> This is like reading a metaphor comparing a woman's head to a mason's
> hammer as implying that her head is made of metal. Such a person has
> merely given up all his rights and powers as a cacogen; he has not
> actually chosen a new form. However, since the analogy seems to be to
> fallen angels, I guess the loss of wings meets both criteria without
> contradiction.

How does that work? I don't see losing the wings would be equivalent to 
gaining mortal flesh.

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