# Delage et ses amis *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 May 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Peter Stephenson *09 May 1998, 10:27* I absolutely agree that `unable to be photographed' is a chilling phrase, coming from Wolfe. I don't necessarily think that means there is any `obvious' supernatural explanation. Wolfe is an expert at straining the bounds of reality in such away that it still makes perfect sense the way it is. I continue to read the story the way I first did: that there is some `non-obvious' supernatural explanation, that the narrator's reality is warped in some way that he simply doesn't ever see Suzanne. The whole universe is conspiring that they don't meet --- even by bending the laws a bit. That's what I find chilling. I think (please contradict) this is the naturally Borgesian explanation. pws ---