(urth) Violet=Plutonium

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/14/2011 10:17 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>> David Stockhoff: Lee's comment suggests to me that, since plutonium is
>> never otherwise mentioned but may well be the source of chem energy (i.e.,
>> they have nuclear powerplants in the mode of Iron Man's suit), that Sand may be
>> calling Violet something like "my heart." Whether that is flirty or an
>> expression of true love I don't know.
> Yes, that's good! Just the track I was onto. I was stuck on plutonium as
> radioactive fuel, so all I could think of by way of analogy was, "my little chili
> pepper" or something like that. Plutonium as "my heart" works quite nicely for
> an atomic powered being.

And it underscores chems as "people," always a concern of Wolfe's.