(urth) So Where DID the Guard Go?

[Antonin Scriabin]

Would you want it any other way?
On May 1, 2014 9:34 PM, "William Graham" <cyfyguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> LOL!  It figures-  four sentences in and I have to commit to reading
> another thousand pages to get half an answer!  That's Wolfe for ya!
>
> -WHG3
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> William -
>>
>> I believe that this question is answered in the "Short Sun" trilogy. At
>> least tentatively.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:48 PM, William Graham <cyfyguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello folks,  I've been reading the lists for ages-  thanks for the
>>> help.  I'm now one my second 'hard read' through BOTNS after half a dozen
>>> or so 'casual reads' since its publication.
>>>
>>> I get tripped up on the fourth sentance.
>>>
>>> Roche indicates, "The guard has gone".
>>>
>>> The popular discussion on this page has historically been "Who asks,
>>> 'But why would the guard leave?' ?"  in the next paragraph.  While that
>>> discussion is very useful for introducing us to Wolfe's love of removing
>>> the net from underneath his readers' high wire, I cannot seem to find any
>>> place where those who have gone before have asked the more basic question:
>>>
>>> "Yeah, where DID the guard go?"
>>>
>>> The obvious answer is that he's patrolling, a possibility supported by
>>> the fact that Vodalus fires his weapon, but never indicates at whom.  The
>>> issue however is that our apprentices are surprised to see the guard gone.
>>>  If leaving his post to patrol were common, why the confusion over his
>>> absence?
>>>
>>> V doesn't seemingly fire at the volunteers, the dialog between he and
>>> Badger and Thea support this, and only three of the volunteers (those
>>> pursuing Eata) could have possibly arrived at the site before Sev anyway.
>>>
>>> So where's the guard, and why did V fire his weapon?
>>>
>>> -WHG3
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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