(urth) First Exodus theory revised

[Lee Berman]

>Gerry Quinn: I really don't agree with this.  He has a dream or waking dream in which 
>images of various women run together (I think women he associates with sex 
>or sexuality).  In this dream he also sees the Outsider as a wooden toy, and 
>a polished tabletop as the sea.  I don't think there's any reason to take it 
>literally that all the women in his dream are the same woman, any more than 
>that the Outsider is a wooden toy.

I can see why Marc has trouble with your theory Gerry. As a self-acknowledged mystery
writer, Gene Wolfe has a special place in his work for dream sequences and 
stories/myths/legends. I can't see him using a dream sequence to reveal something as
banal as the fact that Silk is a man and has had sexual thoughts about various women.
We already knew that. The dream must be there to tell us things we don't know.
 
I find pointed significance in the metaphors of the wooden toy Outsider and the tabletop
sea which presage revelations in Short Sun and hearken back to mysteries in BotNS. I 
would expect revelations of similar importance with regard to the women in the dream. I 
think similar importance can be found in all Wolfean dreams, legends and stories.