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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Son of Witz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">just reread it. it's not oblique. the monitor changed course.<br>but I don't think that alone is enough to deny that Quetzal might have been trying to send them to the Inumu (inhumi).</blockquote>
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<div>Me either. I do think it throws it into doubt, though. Quetzal was either a sort of false prophet luring people to their deaths or a vampire who came to love the people he cared for--I'm still not sure which, or that Wolfe wants it to be clear.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>How would he know he would die and be overruled by a servant? call it a lack of shrewdness on his deathbed.<br>
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<div>His corpse was hideous. People were freaking out about it. If he knew that, he wouldn't assume the monitor would overrule his decision--he'd assume that EVERYONE would collectively realize that doing what he asked was a Very Bad Idea. The surprising part, to him, might have been Remora talking the others into trusting Quetzal anyway.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span>anyway, unless some other answer supplants that, I'll stick with it, because it's loaded and appropriate to the themes.<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:29 AM, John Watkins wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I thought Horn was explicit about the monitor changing course based on the corpse.<br><br>On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Son of Witz <<a href="mailto:sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org" target="_blank">sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:23 AM, John Watkins wrote:<br><br><br><br>On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Son of Witz <<a href="mailto:sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org" target="_blank">sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>> wrote:<br>
My biggest question throughout the whole book was the nature of Quetzal. I find it interesting that the heads of this church are a feathered serpent and an eel. I can't help but relate this to my feelings (which I've expressed here before, and apologize in advance to the faithful) that the Catholic Church has long been usurped by vampires of sorts. I'm sure I'm not alone in that feeling, and I find it extremely provocative that a devout Catholic would set things up that way. more testament to Wolfe's gutsiness. I can't help but feel that Quetzal was shepherding his flock to Green as food. talk about a blood sacrifice. I assume it was him who got Teasel early on.<br>
<br>I dunno. Had Quetzal ever seen the corpse of one of his own kind? If so, he'd presumably know what would happen and pick the planet he didn't want them to go to, right?<br><br>So, you're saying the Monitor decided, after seeing his corpse, to change course. i thought that was vague, but yeah...<br>
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