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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4@home.com> Subject: Re: (urth) interview clipping on Free Live Free Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:32:18 At 07:08 AM 4/20/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Here is a quote from an online interview accessible through Paul Duggan's web >sight. > >"GW: I suppose yeah. Yes. Somewhat the same concern. I tried to give the four >borders, I tried to give each sort of a besetting sin. Madame Serpantina, >it's >pride. Candy, it is gluttony. Stub, I forget now. Osgood Barnes, sexuality of >course. > >JJ: And you drew them somewhat from the _________ > >GW: Envy, envy I think is Stubbs. And I wasn't trying to write allegory. I >wasn't saying he was a personification of envy. I wanted to show men and >women >who were actually beset by these sins. " > >I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but once again we need to consider the >position of authorial intent: fallacy or definitively influential in >interpretation? >Marc Aramini Gosh, and that was my interview, and I'd forgotten. Well, I'm all for authorial intent, though as you can see, Wolfe was a bit unsure in his memory. But since all these sins overlap one another, I can go either way. Serpentina certainly is proud and haughty, and pride is traditionally the sin of Satan, so her involvement with witchcraft makes sense. Stubb as envious is a bit harder for me to see, but Wolfe wasn't entirely sure. JBJordan *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/