From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v013.n004
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 13:36:48 



On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Alice Turner wrote:

> It's a Tall Ass! I love this! Bravo! And we just know the taluses are going
> to show up as important in TBOTSS because of the inordinate amount of time
> Wolfe spent on the factory that makes them, so it's a tie between the
> series. Hooray!

I'm not sure I know any such thing.  My impression in reading that bit was
that Blood's talus had been an important enough character that Wolfe
(Horn?) wanted to give the reader some background about where taluses
come from.

Like Chekov says, if a gun goes off in the first act, you better make sure
someone finds it on the mantle in the third act. 

-Rostrum


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