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Blattid: Precisely! ...or is merely ignorant of it... Nutria: I suspect that all literature is the consequence of a process of selection and elimination - at story is told whi…
25 Apr 2003, 02:44
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MEH: (sigh...) OK, OK...I left myself _wide_ open for that one...fair enuff... Here we enter interesting territory; just _who is_ a science fiction writer? And what is _scienc…
22 Apr 2003, 10:40
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Malco: But Nastler _intended_ Lanark to fail...you might recall that Nastler described the sort of success which Lanark fantasised about when he accepted the gig - people listen…
19 Apr 2003, 02:12
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Malco/Nastler: Which is as little as Lanark ended up trusting him...understandably... (sigh)...where's one of my copies? ""Bloody rotten," said Lanark. "I haven't read as much …
16 Apr 2003, 11:14
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Malco: Interesting...I was gonna suggest the very same thing. Bear in mind, tho', that Mr. Gray - encountered in the book as the author, Nastler - is very reluctant to have 'La…
15 Apr 2003, 04:19
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...uhh, thanks to the people who pointed out my error...and quite rightly...I was aware of the temporal inconsistency, but I coulda sworn that there was some allusion in the fina…
25 Jan 2003, 02:19
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Sorry...hard to _get at_ the computer these days... Spectacled Bear: Ryan: Well, I suppose the points that I was making are neatly encapsulated by the above quotations. I thin…
23 Jan 2003, 01:20
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Nigel thus: Mystical, baffing and worth re-reading... (bows) This is a much better way of describing it...my only excuse, which is not a valid one, is that I was writing under c…
19 Jan 2003, 06:33
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You have provoked me into public musing... The way _I_ read TAD, there was no suggestion that Green was necessarily going to his death. As to the general issue of the 'reality' …
18 Jan 2003, 10:35
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Tom: Funny; haven't been around Urth much the last couple of days, but this possiblity was nagging at me this very morning...the text states, however, that the Platonic people w…
28 Dec 2002, 09:49
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Quoth Mr. Lackey: Well, I myself am an adherent of _neither_ theory. I have an open mind, and am open to discussion. Dogmatism troubles me in excessive quantities, tho'...and …
22 Dec 2002, 09:33
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Don: <snip> Pardon my obtuseness, but is it anywhere specified that Marble's memories of her life as a secular chem are located on the Whorl? She might have had an earlier lif…
18 Dec 2002, 10:06
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Well, I'm quite happy to trudge along as Zibethicus if everybody else can live with it - I have no wish to occupy somebody else's `muskrat'. Zibethicus might sound like a silly …
13 Dec 2002, 04:10
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Ummm...I just joined...are we supposed to be using Vironseque nicknames? Will my existing name do - it is that of an animal... Is there a digest available? I forgot to ask... …
11 Dec 2002, 00:13
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