(urth) FW: May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_

[Marc Aramini]

my mistake, replaced, supplanted.  I KNOW  he was bitten by the cat,
Gerry.  Why even say that?  Victor is only a part of the equation because
the cat had a kind of affinity for Victor like the Shadow Children do for
whoever with their psychic empathy, but it is the bite that brings the
fragment of that psychic connection into Marsch and "replaces" him.  If
there is any of Victor in Marsch, it is through the psychic resonance the
cat had with Victor.

I think of Victor and Marsch as two distinct entities, and Victor DIES in a
scene you believe to be a fabrication, a fall.  But Wolfe wants us to
believe Victor takes Marsch's place and assumes his shape, because that is
the first false solution to the mystery without touching on the life cycle
of the Shadow Children that underlies the point of "A Story".  It seems
Sandwalker the abo lives, as it seems Victor replaces Marsch, but Marsch
is actually but a vector for an infection which can rise up on air currents
and float in the wind (Eastwind).


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:

>
> On 05/08/2014 17:59, Marc Aramini wrote:
>
>> they say the white creatures they chew and spit out are their "brides." -
>> seems like an organism to me. As I said, the associations are symbolic
>> rather than literal, so proving it is quite unlikely.  Sandwalker and
>> Eastwind ARE switched by a bite.  Marsch is switched with a bite, too.  But
>> you don't buy it, that's fine.
>>
>
> That's the plant.  It's white and without comfort because the drug is used
> up.  Then they wait until sufficient time has passed for safety, and take
> more of the plant.
>
> Why do you say Marsch is switched, rather than replaced?  The new Marsch
> says "I needed to make my voice like his and look older". And the old
> Marsch was bitten by the cat, not by Victor...
>
>
> - Gerry Quinn
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