Lil abner's father was named lucifer, by the way. <br>I suppose that post should be "his being in the 7th grade..." ... Possessive pronouns with gerunds and gerund phrases ...<div><br></div><div><br>On Monday, July 21, 2014, Marc Aramini <<a href="mailto:marcaramini@gmail.com">marcaramini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Him being in the seventh grade explains why he isn't in the picture- his perceptions were altered by wrestling with his changeling. It seems mysterious but can be rationalized if we accept Peter Palmieri alters the perceptions of everyone in contact with him, but his father and Pete are a little different. It also explains why there was a room for Peter when he appeared at Maria's childhood and how someone overseas knew to ask about peter, and makes sense of the name of the church, the immaculate conception, which is concerning Mary's birth without sin (not Jesus') (ie the changeling shows up when Maria is young).<div>
<br></div><div>The old man being dead could either mean the island of never land is the isle of death (closer than when Pete was young but farther from the shores of the real world than it is when he is on it compared to the other children) or that the father who takes Pete Palmer has passed on, his powerful evil might to bend nails broken. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It is, however, set in the world of Peace, so I am sure fairy stories are important to both works. </div><div><br>On Monday, July 21, 2014, Robert Pirkola <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rpirkola@hotmail.com');" target="_blank">rpirkola@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr"><div>I had read the posts about the 3 missing years, though I had little to add to that at this time other than if he is an "oaf", persons I generally associate with being dullards, isn't it possible that Pete Palmer was held back a number of years in school so that he was in 4th grade in 1944 AND born in 1931? That non-magical explanation aside, I have a hard time disagreeing with your timeline. The purpose of my post was that I had just noticed while reading the various interpretations that have been used over the years for "The Changeling" that they were rarely, if ever, discussed all together so I tried my hand at doing so, adding in some details I had found and thought informative. <br>
<br></div><div>Also, while reading some of the old musings on this story by Ron Crown, <span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%">Michael
Andre-Driussi, James Jordan, et al., from 1997, I noticed that there was reference to Wolfe whispering the secret of the "The Changeling" to Damon Knight: </span></div><div><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_164" style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</a></div><div><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_164" style="font-size:12pt">"[W]hen Damon Knight reprinted 'Changeling' in a best-of Orbit collection </a><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_164" style="font-size:12pt">from the first ten volumes; he prefaced it with a letter to Wolfe </a><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_164" style="font-size:12pt">written when he bought the story in which he confesses that he 'can't </a><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_164" style="font-size:12pt">sort it out into any one consistent, linear, daylight-logic pattern.' </a><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_164" style="font-size:12pt">According to Knight, Wolfe revealed the secret years later when he </a><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_164" style="font-size:12pt">whispered to him 'The old man is dead, you know.'" (Urth, Ron Crown, July 15, 1997).</a></div>
<div><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_164" style="font-size:12pt"><br></a></div><div><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_164" style="font-size:12pt">The WolfeWiki entry for "The Changeling" has a mention of this same event but puts it thusly:<font face="Arial"> "</font></a><span style="font-size:12.571428298950195px;line-height:19.05000114440918px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Arial">That may be why when Larry Niven asked for an explanation of this story Wolfe simply said 'The old man is dead.'" </font></span><a href="http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stories.TheChangeling" style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank">http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stories.TheChangeling</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Beyond the obvious conflict about who received the explanation, there is significant doubt that it was in reference to "The Changeling" at all. Micahel Andre-Driussi: "<a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_193" style="font-size:12pt">I just can't shake the feeling </a><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_193" style="font-size:12pt">that Wolfe was telling Knight about PEACE rather than 'The </a><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_193" style="font-size:12pt">Changeling.'"</a></div>
<div><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_193" style="font-size:12pt"><br></a></div><div><a name="14759e08ac5492e7_147599f87eb1a80c_193" style="font-size:12pt">Does anyone have the Best-Of Orbit collection with the Damon Knight preface that they can consult to clear </a></div>
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