(urth) Father Inire as Dionysus

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/26/2011 10:11 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* David Stockhoff <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>
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> [Hethor]
> > Beyond that, we really don;t need to know much more about him, since we
> > already know quite a bit. He is a symbol of perversion of lust, power,
> > and technology.
> I think he’s just a baddie, without too much symbolic overloading.


Well, evil is never just evil in Wolfe
> > As controller/lover of Agia, Queen of the Greenwood,
> > he's got it made in this urthly plane, at least in terms of
> > sensual/sensory satisfaction. He's been led aside by his desires and
> > he's OK with that.
> Agia reckons she controls him, and it seems a fair assessment. Of 
> course, he may be happy enough with his side of the bargain.

Let's say they have a mutually controlling relationship. ;)

> As for his name, he is clearly mad and his shipmates referred to him 
> as a “header” or head case. Due to a period of imposed political 
> correctness, perhaps in the Machine Era, such names are no longer used.

They didn't actually say "header," did they?