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From: <akt@attglobal.net> Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v012.n047 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:03:29 From: Kieran Cleary <kcleary@jb.man.ac.uk>> Subject: Re: (whorl) Pig, Godling > Alga, > > Couldn't agree more re Pig. Did he like deciphering that dialect? He did > nae! It fashed my een! And my kin are Scottish on my mother's side--which made it all the more irritating! I know where your kin are from despite that "uk" in your address.... > The encounter with the godling struck me as very similar to one of Sev's > meetings with Juturna ('I would save you'), or with the hierodules, where > they kneel before him. In a sense, the godling is a debased version of a > hierodule, and recognises Silk as the 'holy one'. Well, yes. But I do think the operative word is "debased." I love Juturna and the hierodules and think they are used *extremely* well by the author (especially in that last book that some on this list like to put down), but as I said in an earlier post, the godling, to me, seems like a Hollywood special effect that serves no purpose other than cover art. -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/ *To leave the list, send "unsubscribe" to whorl-request@lists.best.com *If it's Wolfe but not Long Sun, please use the URTH list: urth@lists.best.com