(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: _Home Fires_, 1982 roundtable

[aaron]

This interview was worthwhile if for no other reason than to hear Wolfe say
"Motherfucker".  I am awed.


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Chelle recognizes her mother in another body but does not recognize skip,
> claiming it is just age. But is it?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> But there is some subtext that it is not him at all.  He says he never
> gives to beggars, then after the first chapter he always gives to beggars.
>  His opening statement about waking up and having faith you are the same
> man you went to sleep as, and then counting the individuals at the ritual
> as seven, might hint that there is someone brave supplementing his
> personality.  He says he learned to fight in law school tongue in cheek
> when suddenly he takes out a policeman.   Also, just for what it is worth,
> the man with the beard who is later said to be chelles father first shows
> up in chapter four sitting next to skip unnamed and unrecognized, saying
> the os would destroy the earth if it guaranteed victory everywhere else. So
> Blue was always on the ship.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 10:53 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
> This is a perceptive summary of a plot that did not seem so plain on first
> reading:
>
> . . . The important thing here is that Chelle is at risk and Skip morphs
> into an adventure hero to save her, at one point leaping over a railing,
> firing a submachine gun into a group of hijackers. This behavior surprises
> him, but it gratifies him too because it changes his image of himself.
>
> Between the third-person point of view, Wolfe intersperses Skip’s (and
> later Chelle’s) first-person meditations. From the first page, Skip has
> worried that he is an old man. Chelle’s original plan was that she would
> return to a rich contracto, and he would get a beautiful young contracta.
> The plan has worked but isn’t satisfying either of them. Skip is wealthy,
> but Chelle is uncomfortable about how he makes his money. Chelle is still
> beautiful to Skip, but she sees herself as damaged. Because she has the
> thoughts and impulses of another woman, she also worries that she is
> mentally ill. . . .
>
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Aaron Singleton
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