(urth) Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Craig Brewer 

Talos would be the best example of that category for me also.

You could argue for ghosts, but Ash and Apu Punchau are the products of time travel, and Malrubius et al have technological explanations.

- Gerry Quinn


> I know what you mean. But Dr. Talos always seemed to borrow from the inscrutability 
> of a fairy figure for me. Random dancing, riddling, otherworldly. I know his nature is 
> "explained", but he still retains that sense for me.

> On Dec 15, 2011, at 4:57 PM, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:
> > Even the fairies themselves don’t seem evident on Urth, and that is unusual 
> > for Wolfe.  You might find > fairies or fairy-like beings on Blue, or even on the 
> > Whorl - and perhaps they will return to Ushas - but on Urth they have been 
> > crushed under the weight of ages.  There are new monsters, but no real fairies 
> > or ghosts.  Anything even vaguely close is a consequence of technology or physics.
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