(urth) Wall of Nessus
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at io.com
Thu Jun 17 00:01:02 PDT 2010
On 6/17/2010 1:06 AM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
> I think we should assume Gene Wolfe has considered this, as the Wall is quite a present part of the text, no?
>
> Or perhaps I'm reading you wrong. Could be a bit of n00b-itis on my part.
The notional translator of the BotNS signs his notes at the end of
Volume I as "G.W." G.W. is a fictional Gene Wolfe, very similar to but
much less informed than the author. This allows the author additional
license to feint and mislead with errors from an unreviewed and in fact
unreviewable translation to compound those of an unreliable narrator.
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