(urth) silk, the dancing toy, gods in the tunnels

[Marc Aramini]

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 From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
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Subject: (urth) silk, the dancing toy, gods in the tunnels
  
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In addition to what has already been posted about dogs as gods, I tend to 
take a meta-interpretation of it in addition to the other suggestions.

Many agree that Wolfe inserts dogs and wolves throughout his stories as a
sort of self-reference.  Perhaps these dogs as gods is a reference to his
own status as the creator of the universe we are inhabiting as we read.

Wolfe's familiarity with gnostic principles seems unquestionable, so I don't
think it escapes him that as he writes, he is functioning as a Demiurge. 
Perhaps the dogs/gods are a recognition that while he is the creator of this 
universe, he acknowledges that he is a false (and perhaps evil) god and that
the one true, spiritual God above all should always be recognized foremost.                           
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Lee, I take it back.  I do feel that what he is doing in Long and Short Sun is actually directly related to his biography.  Rosemary and Wolfe marry, and Plant Engineering provides for their future.  My whole concept of the Solar cycle is that it is the marriage of vegetable and animal through a mysterious, plant engineering process (but not the kind of Plant that Gene's work life involved).
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