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From: "William H. Ansley" <wansley@warwick.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Weer's Death, and J.L. Borges Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 00:38:56 Christopher R. Culver <crculver@aol.com> said: >Peace includes a great deal of Jorge Luis Borges' influence, and seeing it >here can illuminate how it was later used in the Book of the New Sun. >One Borgian influence I think is particularly strong is the labyrithine >symbolism of Weer's house (which I'm assuming is part of his postmortem >imagination and doesn't actually exist). I prefer to believe that the house does/did exist and it did have "museum rooms" replicating important rooms in Weer's life. But, I think the real house certainly wasn't the shifting thing Weer describes in the book, with rooms moving about and appearing and disappearing. Building a house with museum rooms would be a peculiar thing to do, but Weer was a peculiar guy. William Ansley *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/