the sound of one hand laughing

The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 21 Apr 2002
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3187

Michael Andre-Driussi21 Apr 2002, 16:46original
Regarding a timeline for 5HC that puts humans originating from another star
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system on Gondwanaland, Tony Ellis wrote: If there's any actual evidence in 5HC to back up this theory I'm genuinely interested to hear it - but I can't think of any.
Adam Stephanides, re-reading the Gene Wolfe interview (1992), quotes and responds:
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GW: No. I thought of it as a long past universe. Something that we are repeating rather than something that we are.
Wolfe said this? I'm quite surprised, even shocked. I'm pretty much of an intentionalist, but (without having reread all the books) this strikes me as a pointless complication with no textual warrant.
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Tony Ellis22 Apr 2002, 10:06original

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Hmm. It's not clear what point is being made here, but I'm sure it can't be that we should be satisfied with explanations of Wolfe's stories that are in no way backed-up by the stories themselves. :-)

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