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

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Wed Aug 6 05:18:30 PDT 2014


On 05/08/2014 18:50, Tony Ellis wrote:
> Actually, they [Shadow Children]  do crop up a few times in the third 
> novella. As well as the various references to child-sized indigenous 
> people, there is: "...and the Shadow Children of course came to steal 
> by evening... there are never as many of them as they think, because 
> some are only in the minds of others..." - VRT, interviewed by Marsch. 
> and "The question is not, as I once thought, how much the thoughts of 
> the Shadow Children influence reality, but how much our own do." - 
> VRT's writings, sometime after incarceration.

Fair enough.  The last one is interesting.  He immediately references 
the original Marsche's interview with Mrs. Blount, in which she 
describes playing with abos as a child, and her father shooting some.  
I'm not sure how that fits with his observation above.

- Gerry Quinn




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