Sev's family tree

Jeff Wilson · 27 Jan 2011, 19:46 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:46:30 -0600
Subject: (urth) Sev's family tree
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On 1/27/2011 7:40 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> Son of Witz: I don't see any reason to suggest he is a woman though. Wasn't that what you said, Lee?
>
> I have said that if the old person is seen as a woman some important things about this story are clarified
> for me. I also cited two specific collections of items from the text which allow and even suggest this character
> could be a woman.
>
> Your responses have been:
>
>> I think you are putting way too much into these imagined gender confusions and homosexual guesses.
>
>> If they meant anything, they would reverberate through the subtext.
>
>> I think while you are sniffing for clues, you might be missing the extremely potent symbolism...
>
>
> So you are saying my efforts to understand the story are misguided and a waste of time and meaningless.
> I should be devoting myself to the correct interpretation not this rubbish.

I think that is way too strong and harsh to paraphrase criticisms that 
use language like "might be missing" and "if" and "I think".

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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