There Are Doors

James B. Jordan · 22 May 2009, 00:12 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: jbjordan4 at cox.net (James B. Jordan)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:12:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) There Are Doors
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Well, but remember that Green is not too bright. He's one of Wolfe's 
successful, I think, usages of a rather low IQ character who is still 
good and good-hearted. Remember how SilkHorn has some very odd 
medical views, which we as readers know to be wrong.

I'm not really disputing you. I'm just tossing in a caveat. What 
Green thinks might not actually be so.

What is clear is that Mama (the church) and her Boys (priests) want 
to save (redeem) this parallel world. It's an Italian Restaurant (the 
sacramental church) that is the main Door.

Some may not know it, but this is Wolfe's favorite novel.

"Hi! I'm your doll! And I can talk!" -- you gotta love it!

Nutria the Nutricious

At 11:09 AM 5/21/2009, you wrote:
>>>>I bought "There Are Doors" at a used bookstore
>>>>last week.  I am thoroughly impressed.
>>>
>>>TAD is the only "parallel universe" story to offer a systemic 
>>>justification the close similarities in parallel universes that 
>>>have major variations in their histories: Nearby universes are 
>>>influencing each other at a non-rational level.
>>
>>What's non-rational about people spreading artifacts, memes, and 
>>genes back and forth?
>
>That's not the explanation given. Green compares the universes to 
>two adjacent guitar strings tuned to the same note. When you pluck 
>one, the other resonates. By the same token, men in our world wear 
>black at their weddings. There's no "reason" for it.  They wear 
>black here, because they wear black there. They wear black there for 
>a rational reason: The man is about to die.
>
>J.
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James B. Jordan
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