From: Macronaut <macronaut@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon Era Fliers
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:41:48 

Mitchell wrote:
 
one of the final
> plagues in Revelation involved "locusts" which
> ascend from the Pit and
> attack people. Did Wolfe want to evoke that
> reference, tangentially?
> Make of that what you will.
> 

I think it fits in very well with the idea of human
interstellar empire, as represented by Typhon, as a
plague upon the face of the Earth, ravaging its
resources, driving down galactic property values, etc.
etc.

--- "Mitchell A. Bailey" <MAB@lindau.net> wrote:
> Macronaut wrote:...
> > An earlier post remarked on the ... locust-like
> fliers in the era of > Typhon ...Could the
> locust-shaped fliers be attack helicoptors of some
> > sort? ...
> 
> I seem to recall that Sev compared their "thrumming"
> sound as well as
> looks to that of locusts. That thought occurred to
> me during a period
> when we had an unusual amount of military copter
> traffic around here AND
> the usual early autumn grasshopper invasion. The
> hoppers make a racket
> very like little 'copters.
> 
> Another thought floated up unbidden like a denizen
> of the Lake of Birds,
> who spat up its lead slingstones, even as I write:
> one of the final
> plagues in Revelation involved "locusts" which
> ascend from the Pit and
> attack people. Did Wolfe want to evoke that
> reference, tangentially?
> Make of that what you will.
> 
> 
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