(urth) Agia's Weapons

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

Lee Berman wrote:

> I am proposing that what WOlfe has done is take one (very large) character and
> split it into various sub-characters. The synecdoche of this is Tzadkiel who appears in guises
> as varied as hairy blob, monkey, troglodyte, adonis-man, giant serious angel and little laughing
> fairy. Compared to that, are Inire and Hethor (and others) really so different?

The problem here is that you're trying to solve a puzzle in tBotNS
with information that only became available in tUotNS. Wolfe is a
deeply puzzling writer, but he deploys his clues fairly, and when he
wrote tBotNS he had no intention of writing tUotNS - it was not yet a
gleam in David Hartwell's eye. Thus, there would be no way for a
reader to make this analogy; the _Book_ proper has no such
transformations in it (that I recall).

I don't buy it.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes