(urth) Inhumi eyes and names

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Fri, 9/28/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Inhumi eyes and names
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Friday, September 28, 2012, 11:01 AM


António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:
Vision:
- I think this is one case where Wolfe just chose to go with a cool idea, not worrying very much whether it can be scientifically explained or not.


We do all realise this is a lot of what's going on Wolfe, right?  And if we need 'explanation' in the Solar Cycle, surely it's that the whole work is to some degree a form of 'magical realism' or the like, right?  It really is 'science fantasy' to one degree or another, in one sense or another.
 

For the most part, I think there are still mechanistic or symbolic explanations for stuff like this, and sometimes objective "proof"
 

(For example, such as the external objective proofs to aid interpretation in the short story the changeling involving the actor Peter Palmer who played the oaf lil' abner - born in 1931 as our narrator Peter Palmer should have been instead of the 1934 birthdate his account posited, making him too young to enter the war legally - and the fact that the origin of the word oaf lies in a bad exchange - such that he was swapped back in 1931 and his subsequent encounter with his changeling warped his memories).

 
Wolfe has reasons for weird details ... and his whole spiel on the Pelerine's tent making a castle in the sky really drives that home: the symbolic meaning was clear, but the mechanistic one was STILL there somehow.
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