<div>Moreover. Gene Wolfe (married to Rosemary) wrote The Toy Theatre and used marionettes as a central image in New Sun. </div>
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<div>Did he never think of the pun "Rose-Marionette"?<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, John Watkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.watkins04@gmail.com">john.watkins04@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>If only Gene Wolfe had written another text, possibly a short story, exploring the idea of puppets in boxes. Then maybe someone wiser than I could draw wisdom from that text and apply it to the problem of the paracoita, which is beyond me.</div>
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<div>I will make a few observations that, while not wise, may spur others to wisdom.</div>
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<div>1) It seems that delicate and/or doll-like characteristics are attributed to several women in the story, but that Hethor meant one particular paracoita--we may just be dealing with a motif, rather than a puzzle with a definite character as the solution, and there may be red herrings...like a sickening crack of bone on stone being described as as sharp as a metallic clang. Or not.</div>
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<div>2) Severian dreams of marionettes that seemingly represent him and Baldanders.</div>
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<div>3) In Urth, Severian-as-White-Fountain describes Severian-as-Man as a "marionette of flesh".</div>
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<div>4) An inveterate punster who was also a devout Catholic might be taken by the term "marionette." It might conceivably please him to make several female characters in a single work "marionettes" in one sense or another.</div>
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<div>5) Why lemonwood? After all, the classic wood for a doll that comes to life is pine. Per Google, the Howdy-Doody marionette was lemonwood.<br><br></div>
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