Who's Right

Gerry Quinn · 03 Dec 2010, 20:47 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 20:47:51 -0000
Subject: (urth) Who's Right
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From: Ryan Dunn 

> In my own defense, I vehemently represent my assertations as my own 
> viewing of the text. It does nothing to judge or argue for or against 
> someone else's. It does, however, acknowledge that others indeed do 
> take a different "world view" of the book and how it is read.


Some views contradict other views.


> I am curious -- instead of people just rejecting a certain line of thought 
> and then belittling that stance (not you in particular) -- what you, Gerry, 
> might make of the presence of monkeys throughout the BotNS; 
> not just monkey men in caves or apes in the canopy, 
> but of the several blatant descriptions of characters and objects as monkey-like
>  throughout BotNS, which includes, amongst others, Father Inire.


> Latro, for instance, has no monkey-like descriptions of humans, if I 
> remember correctly. I find it hard to believe that they are just coincidences 
> for how Wolfe chose to describe a character.

Maybe it's because BotNS is set in an equatorial region, with jungles, whereas SoA is set in Europe, where there aren't any monkeys?

Are you saying all these monkeys and apes are connected?  Because many of them seem quite distinct.

- Gerry Quinn

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