(urth) moldy bread dream, smell, grain merchant, American plot in 7an

[aaron]

Nice. I never could quite figure out Gassem's purpose in the story. But I
always knew that Wolfe never has useless characters in his work, so I knew
he had some reason for showing him to us. Thanks for this.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tallman's work on seven American nights is almost correct.  America has a
> plot to be great again involving the grain merchant gollem gassem but it
> involves air bound spores.  Nadan dreams of moldy bread and wonders why
> America would wish such a thing.   The weapon they will employ is their
> specialty: drugs.  When the smithsonian guy says smell is true
> communication it is hinting at an airborne infectious vector for gollem
> gassem's grain when it is prepared.  This is why Nadan is sure he was
> drugged on the ship - scent or foreshadowing of America's plot. They are
> going to destroy Persia/Iran as they were destroyed.  I don't think it has
> much to do with any other weapons cache, as that is not thematically
> stressed in the text.  It is poison, probably via smell, that they posit.
>  Perhaps kreton was reaching for the vial they gave Nadan if he wasn't just
> copping a feel.
>
> Gassem!
>
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Aaron Singleton
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