interview questions

Gerry Quinn · 08 Jan 2011, 01:23 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:23:09 -0000
Subject: (urth) interview questions
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It would still not be a case of Crane giving the right answer, because Crane was essentially proposing a mini-stroke, not some sort of programmed haemoglobin-moderated memory access.

- Gerry Quinn

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marc Aramini 
  To: The Urth Mailing List 
  Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 7:00 PM
  Subject: Re: (urth) interview questions


        Just really quickly, I think Wolfe does this in Long Sun, especially with regards to Crane's lame physical cause to Silk's original enlightenment, which seems like such a dumb idea until you realize he could have been programmed for such an information hemorrhage.
        I didn't even think about a physical cause for it until years after I originally pondered it because Crane's explanation was so purposefully unconvincing.

        --- On Thu, 1/6/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

          Unless you spill the beans right in the beginning so blatantly that you fool the unwary reader into ignoring 
          the right answer. Which Wolfe has done here.

       


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