<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Actually one of the darker scenes that recurs several times in Wolfe is a guy perceived as harmless kicking someone to deat (Blue Mouse, Silk and Jahlee, pretty sure Auk did it) and I do wonder if there is an old personal experience or memory about that. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Lee Berman <severiansola@hotmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> "urth@urth.net" <urth@urth.net> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, August 28, 2013 11:03 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> (urth) silk, the dancing toy, gods in the tunnels<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" class=y_msg_container><BR style="RIGHT: auto"><BR><BR>I was just last night reading the section of RttW, where Horn kills Jahlee<BR>when he finds her feeding on Nettle. We can't know what might have inspired<BR>that tragic family scene but it can't have been good.<BR><BR>>David Stockhoff: <BR>>If there is any one thing about the Solar Cycle that truly and persistently <BR>>amazes me, it is that Wolfe does indeed deploy literal meanings (and any or all <BR>>possible puns orthogonal to those meanings) just as you say, Marc---perhaps <BR>>especially when they are so obvious as to be invisible. And yet he also relies <BR>>on myth for deep narrative structure AND psychological and descriptive realism. <BR>>His characters are indeed puppets, often openly and significantly so, and yet <BR>>feel almost real. (Maybe because we all feel like puppets sometimes.)<BR>><BR>>Such complexity simply should not be
possible. And yet bumblebees do fly!<BR><BR>Very well worded, David. Exactly how I have often felt. I can't count the number <BR>of times I've been reading Wolfe and had to stop, with the realization of the level <BR>of complexity hitting me and thinking, "he can't DO that". <BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Urth Mailing List<BR>To post, write <A href="mailto:urth@urth.net" ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</A><BR>Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>