Oh, also, this most recent skim reminded me--due to their slipping out of sync with the forward flow of time, the books have now stopped linking Wolfe specifically with his WWI-era backstory.
But, there's one potential reference to it, and to the Wolfe who, as he put it in Over My Dead Body, "starved to death in 1916". When Wolfe is telling Archie where he went, he says "When I left here, on April ninth, I went to southern Texas, on the Gulf, and spent there the most painful month of my life--except one, long ago."
(That also makes me wonder, why the Gulf?)
There's so much to connect there, and in a very angsty way, too...Wolfe remade himself after the war into someone who would never, could never starve. And now he finds himself inflicting that on himself of his own will. Without anyone to lean on, even. Talk about a recipe for post-traumatic stress flareups!
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But, there's one potential reference to it, and to the Wolfe who, as he put it in Over My Dead Body, "starved to death in 1916". When Wolfe is telling Archie where he went, he says "When I left here, on April ninth, I went to southern Texas, on the Gulf, and spent there the most painful month of my life--except one, long ago."
(That also makes me wonder, why the Gulf?)
There's so much to connect there, and in a very angsty way, too...Wolfe remade himself after the war into someone who would never, could never starve. And now he finds himself inflicting that on himself of his own will. Without anyone to lean on, even. Talk about a recipe for post-traumatic stress flareups!