(urth) wright's attending daedalus chapter eight

[Marc Aramini]

Seal of pas - Number codes need a key.  The talus says the opening code is
"Thetis" and I tried to use a cryptologists decoding from that rotating
key but I don't know enough about how to decrypt stuff.  Try it with Thetis
as the keyword - there's a type of common numerical encryption based on key
words. That or pas/kypris.

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','severiansola at hotmail.com');>> wrote:

> >Marc Aramini: Why else have Gildas be the captain of apprentices when sev
> first sees
>
> >Katherine (st Gildas restored a werewolf's wife to life after she was
> beheaded)? Wolfe
>
> >used those unfamiliar words and structures for a reason - looking those
> and other references
>
> >up is never a waste of time, as Wright seems to imply there.  Wright's
> volume started out strong
>
> >In its examination of Wolfe's short work and then became mired in a
> thesis inimical to Wolfe's
>
> >entire belief system in its refutation of free will.  I think the text
> probably misrepresents what
>
> >Wolfe was doing with language in New Sun.  The implication of chapter
> eight was similar to
>
> >don't waste time looking up stuff.
>
>
> Good detective work on St. Gildas, Marc. I hadn't heard that before and
> given the werewolf
>
> angle it seems impossible that it could be an unintentional inclusion by
> Wolfe. I like it because
>
> it adds substance to Dave Tallman's theory about Severian's beheaded
> mother Catherine being
>
> linked to the Contessa Carina's maids, Solange, Cyneburga and Lybe, all
> beheaded saints.
>
>
> Regarding Wright's book, I agree that he leaves huge potential chunks of
> interpretive content
>
> out in fleshing out his own interpretation of Wolfe's work. But perhaps we
> all do?
>
>
> Wolfe is surely a mystery writer, but I strongly consider him to also be
> an artist and that he means
>
> to be an artist. Meaning that while he hopes some readers solve his
> mysteries, he also hopes and
>
> expects that each reader will interpret his work from their own personal
> framework of understanding,
>
> not just regurgitate Wolfe's own specific intentions.
>
>
> If Wright is an avowed atheist, hey, why not let him have a go at
> interpreting Wolfe's work from an
>
> atheist perspective. If it means leaving things out that he considers
> not-quite-so-important, more
>
> power to him. I suspect that Wolfe does not WANT there to be a "right"
> answer to understanding
>
> his work.
>
>
> (evidence- the as-yet unsolved mystery of the numbers on the Seal Of Pas.
> I've tried pretty hard to
>
> solve it and I think others far smarter than me have also. Perhaps it is
> meant to tell us that he includes
>
> unsolvable mysteries in his work. I hate to concede defeat on the Seal Of
> Pas; I may have another go
>
> at it someday. But insolubility remains a very plausible hypothesis)
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