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

[Marc Aramini]

Actually one of the darker scenes that recurs several times in Wolfe is a guy perceived as harmless kicking someone to deat (Blue Mouse, Silk and Jahlee, pretty sure Auk did it) and I do wonder if there is an old personal experience or memory about that.  
PS - (Silk kills Jahlee there, that's why it is so emotionally bizarre. Nettle knows that the man who has come back is not her husband anymore)


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From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
To: "urth at urth.net" <urth at urth.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 11:03 AM
Subject: (urth) silk, the dancing toy, gods in the tunnels




I was just last night reading the section of RttW, where Horn kills Jahlee
when he finds her feeding on Nettle. We can't know what might have inspired
that tragic family scene but it can't have been good.

>David Stockhoff: 
>If there is any one thing about the Solar Cycle that truly and persistently 
>amazes me, it is that Wolfe does indeed deploy literal meanings (and any or all 
>possible puns orthogonal to those meanings) just as you say, Marc---perhaps 
>especially when they are so obvious as to be invisible. And yet he also relies 
>on myth for deep narrative structure AND psychological and descriptive realism. 
>His characters are indeed puppets, often openly and significantly so, and yet 
>feel almost real. (Maybe because we all feel like puppets sometimes.)
>
>Such complexity simply should not be possible. And yet bumblebees do fly!

Very well worded, David. Exactly how I have often felt. I can't count the number 
of times I've been reading Wolfe and had to stop, with the realization of the level 
of complexity hitting me and thinking, "he can't DO that".                         
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