Wolfe at Dragon*Con (AEG)

James Wynn · 14 Sep 2009, 14:35 · from 2009-September.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:35:56 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe at Dragon*Con (AEG)
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>> Isn't it possible that "going to Woldercan to find Reis"
>> wasn't meant to be taken literally? It seems pretty easy to
>> read that as Cassie was going to Woldercan to find love.

Umm...well, anything is possible, but it would be a pretty vague metaphor in 
any case. And it would be especially obscure in this case because "love" was 
not the point of the panel or Wolfe's statement and since he seemed to be 
presuming that most of the audience had not read AEG. In every other point 
in this particular discourse, he summarized AEG flatly, without poetic 
flourish. I failed to detect any poetic flourish in any of his statements on 
the panels I sat in on.

J.

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