Slow Children at Play
Publication(s)
- First publication
- Winter Solstice chapbook from Cheap Street, 1989
- Wolfe collection(s)
Wolfe's comments from the Introduction to Innocents Aboard
"'The Friendship Light' is one of those stories the author likes better than anyone else. Like 'The Friendhip Light,' 'Slow Childeren at Play' was based in part on an actual light -- a mysterious light in this case -- which I saw once and have never seen again. It's also based on a traffic sign about a half a block north of this house."
Summary
Two childlike men and the narrator see a griffin that controls the sun on the day of the Winter Solstice.
Analysis
This is a sequel to The Arimaspian Legacy, and it has the same narrator.
- Sources of quotes
- Meanings of names
- References to other works
- Theories about what happens under the surface, what the narrator isn't telling us, who the narrator is and when and why s/he is telling the story, what the whole thing "means," etc.
If there are multiple or competing theories, each one should be given a name with a three-bang (!!!) header; if the page begins to get out-of-hand from the size of these, as could happen in a few cases, they should be shuffled off to their own page(s). - Etc.
Unresolved Questions
- Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z?
- Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me?
- Who dunnit?
- Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001?