(urth) Short Story 45: Feather Tigers
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at clueland.com
Sun Sep 9 14:36:05 PDT 2012
On 9/9/2012 6:53 AM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
> Another point - I had a very strong feeling that Quoquo and Dondiil
> remind somewhat Japanese, that
> is, these alien rabbits have the culture that GW wanted to be
> over-respectful to authority and hierarchical,
> which is bad for science (this concerns also "body language"). I
> considered the story
> as fiercely humoristic about science based on authority.
I can see rabbits as suggesting the caricatured Japanese rodentlike
dentition common in Wolfe's youth, and perpetrated by Bugs Bunny at
least once. Considering Wolfe's recently mentioned wish to do Roger
Rabbit fan fiction, such a connection cannot be dismissed.
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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
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