Blue to Green
Feb. 1st, 2004 03:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramJust finished On Blue’s Waters, the first book of the Book of the Short Sun.
I’d forgotten about that bit with the pit. So all three of the Sun protagonists have what might be death-and-resurrection scenes. Severian when he gets hit by an avern leaf on the Sanguinary Fields, Silk when he’s buried in rubble after a Trivigaunti attack, and Horn when he falls in a pit while hunting. In each case, witnesses say the hero appears dead.
Is Babbie the forest god of the Neighbors? I’m not sure why I should think so.
And from the Whorl mailing list, here’s Gene Wolfe on the origin of “hus”:
I’m guessing he meant to type “hushog”.
I’d forgotten about that bit with the pit. So all three of the Sun protagonists have what might be death-and-resurrection scenes. Severian when he gets hit by an avern leaf on the Sanguinary Fields, Silk when he’s buried in rubble after a Trivigaunti attack, and Horn when he falls in a pit while hunting. In each case, witnesses say the hero appears dead.
Is Babbie the forest god of the Neighbors? I’m not sure why I should think so.
And from the Whorl mailing list, here’s Gene Wolfe on the origin of “hus”:
Hus is a little embarrassing. It's an old word for house. (A hussy was a kept woman: a house woman, like a house dog, rather than a housewife--a woman who was shacking up.) When I started the book, I wanted to combine the house-pet idea with the wild-boar idea, and called Babbi a hushhog. I hadn't gotten very far before I realized that most readers would see the word as hush.og and my characters began referring to him as "hus." So I left it at that.
I’m guessing he meant to type “hushog”.