(urth) Short Story 110: The Cat

[Marc Aramini]

The parallel between Inire and mr smith in a solar labyrinth seems apt.
That solitary child lost in the maze at noon when the maze itself
disappears ...


On Tuesday, August 26, 2014, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think the larval- lemur talk is a silly tale.  I think it
> references the hieros and hierodules.  Odilo just doesn't know about that.
> On Tuesday, August 26, 2014, Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gwern at gwern.net');>> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > That darkness and gloom of creation Gwern mentioned is evoked is because
>> > this is a Halloween story dressed as sf/fantasy, for what it's worth.
>>
>> That's an out-of-universe reason for the setting yes, but look
>> carefully at Odilo's introduction: he tells us it's Halloween and he's
>> heard silly false stories:
>>
>> > I heard such recountings of larva, lemures, and the like as would
>> terrify every child in the Commonwealth-and make every man in it laugh most
>> heartily.
>>
>> But even though those stories of larva and lemures are false, there
>> still are dark powers and things in the universe, and Odilo has
>> witnessed them. To let people think that dark stories are false is
>> itself a failing:
>>
>> > And do not such idle tales as I heard by the fire but serve to paint
>> yet blacker that gloom through which we grope?
>>
>> So Odilo has a responsibility:
>>
>> > As every thinking man acknowledges, mighty powers move through this
>> dark universe of Briah, though for the most part hidden from us by its
>> infinite night. Is it not every man's duty to record what little he has
>> glimpsed that may give light to it?...I am therefore determined to set down
>> here, for the enlightenment (as it may be) of my successors and whoever
>> else may read, the history, whole and in entire in so far as I know it, of
>> a series of incidents that culminated (as I believe) this night ten years
>> gone.
>>
>> And so he tells us the story of Sancha and her brush with the dark
>> mighty powers hidden by infinite night (but reachable through
>> mirrors).
>>
>> --
>> gwern
>> http://www.gwern.net
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