(urth) Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

"making clothes for the poor"

Of course! I just read the wiki but did not make the connection.

Dorcas made clothes for the poor; Agia buys rags and used clothing from the poor. I suppose these may be complementary rather than opposite functions, but they also try to cheat or mug the rich. Did Agia and her brother buy their shop from Dorcas' parents? 

--- On Tue, 5/24/11, Fernando Gouvea <fqgouvea at colby.edu> wrote:

> From: Fernando Gouvea <fqgouvea at colby.edu>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 8:49 AM
> Yes, of course Dorcas immediately
> brings Acts 9 to mind, and the natural associations are
> ressurection, her other name Tabitha, and making clothes for
> the poor. I guess that's why I knew at once she had been in
> the lake of the dead.
> 
> ================
> Fernando Q. Gouvêa
> fqgouvea at colby.edu
> 
> 
> 
> On May 24, 2011, at 1:26 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > but one more thing: any bible thumping type would
> immediately associate Dorcas with resurrection as soon as
> they heard the name, that's just the way it is in the bible
> and the way Wolfe works.  He plays by the cultural
> symbolist rules to build up meaning to some degree, even
> though he is a bit sneakier than most.
> > 
> > --- On Mon, 5/23/11, António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> >>> else.
> >> 
> >>> By the way, "for the record" I had no idea the
> old
> >> man's "Cas" was
> >>> Dorcas.  I probably realized that on
> some
> >> reread.  It's even possible
> >>> that I needed it pointed out (maybe
> here).  Lee
> >> Berman's point about the
> >>> pronunciation was part of it.
> >> 
> >> I should point out that my instictive reading of
> Dorcas was
> >> DAWRK-us (gave up on IPA), possibly not that far
> from the
> >> AmE pronunciation, but not being acquainted with
> the name I
> >> switfly considered door-KAZZ, seeing as there was
> a guy
> >> nearby looking for a KAZZ. My language's
> orthography is more
> >> (morpho)phonemic than phonetic, but unstressed
> sounds,
> >> although reduced, aren't neutralised as in english
> (so
> >> unstressed e/i may merge, as may o/u, but a
> doesn't merge
> >> with anything), so we do pay attention to the
> graphic part
> >> of it because it does line up with the
> pronunciation, even
> >> if the rules are complex (they're part of the
> language,
> >> anyway).
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