Father Inire Theory cont.

James Wynn · 13 Dec 2010, 19:13 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:13:52 -0600
Subject: (urth) Father Inire Theory cont.
In-Reply-To: <CC8ACE2FB2904734ADC2220B1701BBF0@jill>
References: <SNT123-W6207E8FA6CF5C8FC00A0DCCF120 at phx.gbl>
	<CC8ACE2FB2904734ADC2220B1701BBF0@jill>
Message-ID: <4D067070.7010508 at gmail.com>

> Gerry Quinn-
> Which there are.  Some things in Wolfe's stories are ambiguous, others 
> are rather certain.  Triskele is a dog, or a dog-shaped aquastor.  It 
> is very unlikely that he is a cat.  It is even more certain that he is 
> not an elephant.  An interpretation that requires Triskele to be an 
> elephant has a high likelihood of being wrong. 

Your central point is taken that there are known knowns. But, 
technically Triskele might be /merely/ an alien creature that is 
analogous to dogs. If you saw it, you might prefer the term "bear" ( 
suspect you would). I know it probably makes no difference narratively 
and little allusively, but it does exemplify Wolfe's forest of mirrors.

u+16b9

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net