Posted 23 June 2010 - 03:41 PM
foolio, on 23 June 2010 - 01:59 PM, said:
The strange part about Rud taking Shurqs uncles last name is
Spoiler from DoD
Yeah, that was a little weird. SE had already given perfectly good explanations for Rud's first
and last names, and then he goes and pulls that trick. It felt a little contrived, to be honest.
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch