Thea and Thecla

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 10 Jan 2011, 16:00 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:00:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Thea and Thecla
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Right. And so this is a common problem with conventional solutions. I like to think of the storytelling as withholding information, not giving it or even parsing it out. You'd only intrude with the "adult" perspective when it advances the story.

--- On Mon, 1/10/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
Subject: (urth) Thea and Thecla
To: urth at lists.urth.net
Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 8:01 AM

I'll note that Mantis once posted a nice summary of how BotNS paralleled Gene Wolfe's life. As he?
wrote this book, he himself was facing the story-telling problems Severian was facing. We have all told
stories of our youth so we all know (if we are good story-tellers) that it would ruin the story to?
constantly, repeatedly interupt the story events with "well, of course now I know that...".?
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