GUTs and so on

David Stockhoff · 24 Aug 2010, 23:57 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:57:21 -0400
Subject: (urth) GUTs and so on
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You want those eggs with salmonella or without?

I for one won't be critical. I've only read Short Sun once and am almost 
completely confused by it.

James Wynn wrote:
>  On 8/24/2010 3:34 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>> Sometimes ... and I want to be clear that I'm not singling anyone out
>> here ... nor is this a recent but rather a recurring thing ... I get
>> the feeling that there's a competition going on, whose rules I am
>> unaware of, but the objective of which seems to be the erection and
>> successful support of the most baroque and prima facie implausible
>> theory concerning some Lupine matter; the prize being simply the gasps
>> and awed admiration of our fellow Wolfeans, and that this competition
>> is rather like a circus act, in that the value is not in the thing
>> done but in its difficulty.
>
> I am feeling a little singled out.
>
> Look, it's not really a baroque or complicated explanation. It's not 
> intuitive, but it's founded on one pretty well-known event in text. 
> And lots of little clues that many people have agreed were clues 
> without an answer to unify them into anything. It doesn't require 
> supposing vast histories that are undescribed or unalluded to. I'm 
> surprised large parts of it was even a big mystery to anyone who has 
> read to In Green's Jungles, even though it was a couple years after I 
> first read "Short Sun" that the the bit about Hy occurred to me. But I 
> can be a little slow.
>
> The reason I'm not just laying it out on the fly is that I do know in 
> advance that some people will _hate_ it -- on purely philosophical 
> grounds, regardless of what the text says.  And I want to make it 
> clear that I'm not singling anyone out here. ;-)
>
>  So, I am at least going to get the textual references down before 
> present it as a whole--although I mentioned parts before. Dave Tallman 
> asked me to explain it and that's why I'm explaining it. If I'm 
> performing a circus act, I'm performing on request. Wait. Then throw 
> eggs.
>
> J
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