Wolfe being clear on 5HoC

Tony Ellis · 07 Sep 2006, 22:37 · from 2006-September.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 23:37:25 +0100
Subject: (urth) Wolfe being clear on 5HoC
Message-ID: <000d01c6d2ce$31597500$6401a8c0@cthulhu>

bsharp wrote, quoting me:
>>To be fair, it sometimes feels like cheating to bring an external
Wolfe 
>>quote into an argument
>
>I disagree because I consider everything in here, even the arguments, a

>collaboration working toward a common goal, not competition.  If you
"win" 
>with key information omitted, it isn't much of a victory, and in fact a

>failure, IMHO.  ;-).

Possibly I didn't explain myself very well. All I meant was that we
should be able to solve the conventional mysteries of a Wolfe story from
the story alone. What Wolfe says in an interview may be very
illuminating, but if you have to *rely* on it to prove your theory about
a story, then you've failed to understand that story. And if you don't
have to rely on it, then it's not key information.

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