(urth) Typhon's nature

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/11/2011 5:21 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, October 11, 2011 14:22, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> Larry was right to point out that Typhon probably senses the "powers"
>> more than he "speaks" with them. But they are plainly Erebus and Abaia,
>> or I have never read a word by Wolfe and live under the South Pole in a
>> rusty tin can.
> Typhon's ship commanders slipping away before he knows it argues against
> his long-range ESP.
Of course, it argues against good signal intelligence as well.
> He mentions the Asciians in the same breath as the
> beasts and knows they are beholden to them as the old autarch and Vodalus
> later confirm. This is entirely consistent with him retrieving Asciian
> signal intelligence from automated listening posts; Vodalus confirms they
> use long-distance comms.
This seems to assume Erebus and Abaia use ordinary radio. Right?
>
> Typhon's sending of his thoughts into distant places remains a somewhat
> curious idiom if it is not literal, but it is not entirely without
> precedent in literature and bombast and other figurative expression.
Its ambiguity-while-seeming-perfectly-clear would not be without 
precedent in Wolfe either.


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