(urth) theories

[Daniel Petersen]

Yeah, it might be more of a theme/image connection.  Women in windows.
 (Trying to think of more of those in other books but drawing a blank for
the moment - wait, the Inhumi young woman at one or two points on both Green
and Blue?)  Not sure what the significance would be, but it 'feels' kind of
profound - something about longing and neglect and 'framing' and 'seeing'
through the frame, the lense/glass?  Of course, in terms of goddesses,
'women in windows' is a recurring motif of Long Sun.  (Does Cassie Casey do
any window sitting?  The love interest lady [forgot the name!] in Pirate
Freedom is looking at Chris through the window of the house where she serves
at one point until the master tells her off for it.)

-DOJP

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr> wrote:

> About Dorcas sitting in a window.
>
> As far as I remember,
>
> a) she was sitting after she was married
> b) it was a shop window, i.e. - ground floor
> c) it was in Nessus, at that time, at a lively city street
> d) in the Fechin story, it was more "rustic" paysage
> e) not the ground floor
> f) the Casdoe father could wait calmly outside
> while Fechin visited the girl - not very likely
> on some street in Nessus
> g) also the school described by Casdoe father looks
> very poor and "rustic".
> h) I don't remember what is said about the complexion
> of the girl visited by Fechin, but something was said,
> and it doesn't sound like Dorcas.
>
> I am not convinced that it is the same situation.
>
> Sergei
>
> David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> On 10/24/2011 1:57 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>>
>>> I can't even deal with all that here. Let me just focus on the window
>>> memory as an example. If we
>>> >  accept that Dorcas' husband is Inire and we accept that Fechin is
>>> Inire, that mystery is solved.
>>> >  The old person in Casdoe's cabin tells a story about Fechin's romantic
>>> meeting with a beautiful
>>> >  young woman who sits in a window. I think she is Dorcas.
>>>
>>
>> It's true that Dorcas herself remembers sitting in a window. That's a nice
>> connection.
>>
>> I wonder if Wolfe was in a deep Proustian false memory-trance during the
>> whole writing of TBotNS.
>>
>
>
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