(urth) Agia's Weapons

[David Stockhoff]

On 12/21/2011 11:43 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> 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.

Aside from Ultan's musings, I agree. Inire's multiplications must be 
contained!