interview questions

Dave Muir-Bacon · 07 Jan 2011, 16:42 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dave.muir-bacon at tracegroup.com (Dave Muir-Bacon)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:42:58 -0000
Subject: (urth) interview questions
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I think it's a great book not only because it can generate this amount
(and high level) of debate about what it "means", but that we can
probably never truly understand it fully, and giving the reader  that
feeling of not really knowing exactly what's  "true" is certainly a
worthwhile function of fiction.

 

Dave M-B

 

From: urth-bounces at lists.urth.net [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net]
On Behalf Of Gerry Quinn
Sent: 07 January 2011 16:32
To: The Urth Mailing List
Subject: Re: (urth) interview questions

 

Of course, in 5HoC, Wolfe has Marsch refer to the paleolithic pygmies
known as the 'Good People' who, he says, are known to have survived in
Ireland and Scandinavia until the end of the Eighteenth Century.

 

It's a theme he has used a lot.

 

Here, Marsch is trying to explain the absence of abo fossils.  By my
reading it is a wrong hypothesis.  Those who think the human/humanoid
abos have lived on Sainte Anne for millenia could use it as support
against the fossil argument.  If the humanoid abos are new, no
explanation is needed for the absence of fossils.

 

	----- Original Message ----- 

	From: DAVID STOCKHOFF <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>  

	 

	These ideas keep coming up in Wolfe, but they don't need always
to be treated as though they shared the same degree of literalness. The
Neighbors may be a form of Star-Shee by analogy only, and the Annese may
be another. And still the Shee themselves surely never existed. As
humans, we make things up.


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