The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned byRudesind

James Wynn · 09 Jul 2010, 14:38 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:38:46 -0500
Subject: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned
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>>>> James Wynn said: I've made a request of you: Replaced "Rudesind is
>>>> Inire" with "Doras is Severian's grandmother" and answer the same
>>>> question. The answer is the same in both instances. You've dodged
>>>> this challenge repeatedly.
>>>
>>> On 7/8/2010 6:55 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote: ?? You've asked it
>>> ONCE, I've reported you to the endless discussions on that at the time
>>> it was put forward, and I've explained how it isn't a good analogy.
>>
>> James Wynn wrote (08-07-2010 13:30):
>> ??? Here are the following threads you've responded to on this:
>>
>>>> Me: What's the narrative advantage of Dorcas being Severian's
>>>> grandmother?
>>>
>>> On 7/7/2010 4:18 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote: I'm not talking about
>>> narrative advantage. I'm talking about speculative advantage. And as a
>>> side note I'm against the idea of narrative advantage. I don't see that
>>> real life employs it, why should fiction?
>>
> On 7/9/2010 5:56 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> This is 'I've explained how it isn't a good analogy'.

Actually, I'm pretty sure you haven't.  Cite the email where you did. 
And it won't count unless you use the words "Dorcas" and "grandmother". 
If you have, I can't understand why you haven't cited it. Perhaps your 
answers are in code.

Unless you can properly cite your explanation, you've dodged the 
challenge a FOURTH time.

Incidentally, by your specialized English, explaining "how it isn't a 
good analogy" isn't an "answer". But since I'm pretty sure you haven't 
done this in relation to "How does Dorcas being Severian's grandmother 
provides any 'speculative advantage'? ", that fact is irrelevant.

>> I said:
>> I remember when the grandmother theory was posed. There was no more
>> textual evidence for it than this Hairy Inire theory. The only reason
>> it's not sitting on the "Half-baked Theory" pile today is because Wolfe
>> uncharacteristically confirmed it to a questioner.
>
> On 7/7/2010 6:05 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> It's probably the only 'puzzle' in the book that everyone gets. The 
> only way
> it could be more transparent would be if instead of Cas the boatman would
> have called her Dorcas. It's not like the boatman calls her Fifi. 

This "transparent" puzzle was only understood some 20 years after the 
book was published.  I'm sure you would have been on the list explaining 
it a week after the SotT was published if you had had the opportunity.

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