(urth) some mysterious stuff in Long Sun
Andrew Mason
andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 18 05:44:00 PST 2011
James Wynn wrote:
> When Silk meets his parents in Mainframe, Horn writes:
>
> "You must, my lad." A man's voice, the voice of which Lemur had been
> a species of mockery. Looking up he saw the carved brown face from
> his mother's closet.
> "We're your parents." He was tall and blue-eyed. "Your fathers and
> your mothers."
Ah, OK - that (the first line) seems definitely to be Tussah speaking;
can it not be explained simply by saying that Lemur was imitating
Tussah?
>
> I see it differently. Wolfe says the best villians fall just _short_ of
> being a hero.
> From another POV, and for some people, I think he _was_ a hero. It's
> very relative.
> What was every other leader on Urth like at the time?
It would help to know something about the real afterlife in the _Sun_
universe. Are Typhon and Lemur in the kind of place from which the
Outsider might send them?
>
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