Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 82

James Wynn · 13 Dec 2010, 16:36 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:36:55 -0600
Subject: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 82
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> Lee Berman-
> There are no universal truths
> here and context is more important than many would like to admit in their understanding of others' viewpoints.

There _are_ universal truths. Some questions are unanswerable because 
Wolfe didn't think of them while writing. But there are single answers 
to many open questions. But, I affirm, the same tests cannot deduce them 
all. And sometimes...well, I always offer as an example the question 
about why Auk kidnapped Hyacinth and why he let her go.

    22. /Why did Auk ... kidnap Hyacinth, and why, subsequently, did he
    let her go?/ -- Because Tartaros had told him to bring a woman. He
    released her as he recovered from his brain injury, was able to
    think more clearly, and realized that Hyacinth was not the woman he
    should bring. (Putting it another way, he released her because
    Tartaros told him to. These answers are not as disparate as they may
    appear.)

Wolfe's answer to that is not derivable from the text even after one 
knows the answer. It must in every case have been guessed at before 
Wolfe provided the answer. And, I believe, there are answers to 
questions unsupposed in his answer--questions that could only be arrived 
at from cryptic answers like this.

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