The Two Katharines

António Pedro Marques · 16 Aug 2010, 13:58 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:58:07 +0100
Subject: (urth) The Two Katharines
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Lee Berman wrote (16-08-2010 14:41):

> If the animal guys go so far as to take a bear-sow as a bride to ascend
> in their guild is it so much more unbelievable that the torturers perform
> a real beheading for theirs? Sure both rituals could be purely fake and
> symbolic. But why choose the boring answer when an outrageous and
> shocking answer will serve as well? This is SF and F is it not? We have
> half-human half-animals and khaibits in the text. Why not use all themes
> to full capacity?

It's unnecessary cruelty to an innocent human being. Not the kind of thing
that makes sense for me coming from the Guild.

> Must we always think the prosaic answer is more likely?

Not at all.

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