<div dir="ltr">LOL! It figures- four sentences in and I have to commit to reading another thousand pages to get half an answer! That's Wolfe for ya!<div><br><div>-WHG3</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">danldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">William -<div><br></div><div>I believe that this question is answered in the "Short Sun" trilogy. At least tentatively.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:48 PM, William Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cyfyguy@gmail.com" target="_blank">cyfyguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello folks, I've been reading the lists for ages- thanks for the help. I'm now one my second 'hard read' through BOTNS after half a dozen or so 'casual reads' since its publication.<div>
<br></div><div>I get tripped up on the fourth sentance.</div><div><br></div><div>Roche indicates, "The guard has gone".</div><div><br></div><div>The popular discussion on this page has historically been "Who asks, 'But why would the guard leave?' ?" in the next paragraph. While that discussion is very useful for introducing us to Wolfe's love of removing the net from underneath his readers' high wire, I cannot seem to find any place where those who have gone before have asked the more basic question:</div>
<div><br></div><div>"Yeah, where DID the guard go?"</div><div><br></div><div>The obvious answer is that he's patrolling, a possibility supported by the fact that Vodalus fires his weapon, but never indicates at whom. The issue however is that our apprentices are surprised to see the guard gone. If leaving his post to patrol were common, why the confusion over his absence?</div>
<div><br></div><div>V doesn't seemingly fire at the volunteers, the dialog between he and Badger and Thea support this, and only three of the volunteers (those pursuing Eata) could have possibly arrived at the site before Sev anyway.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So where's the guard, and why did V fire his weapon? </div><div><br></div><div>-WHG3</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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