From: Derek Bell <dbell@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: FREE LIVE FREE
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:37:32 +0100


[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]

In message <199709261528.IAA04849@lists1.best.com>, Tony Ellis writes:
>It's years since I read this one from cover to cover,

	Same here.

>The way I remember the ending, it is this "in a wall" reference that
>Osgood recalls when he comes across the others, and the "Ah-ha"
>moment is when we realise that this means that the time machine is
>built into the front door of Free's house.

	I don't think you're making a fool of yourself at all; I
think Wolfe said somewhere that some people hadn't realised the
significance of some flowers that a character saw through a window. In
fact, Wolfe implied that the flowers were blooming in the "wrong"
season, that it's a different season outside the front of the house to
the season seen through the window.

>Could some kind person send this chronology to the Urth-list for the =
>benefit of benighted UK readers like me?

	I agree, provided it does not anger the great god K'op-eeriit.

	Tercel