From: matthew.malthouse@guardian.co.uk
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:48:30 +0000
Subject: RE: (urth) Poor Moly




On 02/12/2002 17:19:26 Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

>Roy C having written:
>
>> As you postulate young Pike as Blood's father,=20
>
>Ahem ... While I have no idea whether Crush knows this or not,
>Gene Wolfe holds the same hypothesis. Once upon a time, moments
>before I first joined this list back in '97, Gene Wolfe answered
>a passel of questions from this list in a sort of informal
>email interview. The entire article, "Train from Wolfeland,"
>was posted by Mantis and can be found in the archives at
>http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0006/0350.shtml -- however
>the relevant question and answer are quite short:
>
>> 12. "Who was Blood's father?"  Patera Pike.
>
>As for the Outisder thinking "well" of Pike, well, if we=20
>identify the Outsider as the God worshipped by Christians,
>then He has a quite uncanny fondness for repentant sinners...

Thank you for reminding me about that.

Some of those questions and answers might stomp on a few of the currently
debated theories.


Matthew



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