"Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

Marc Aramini · 01 May 2011, 17:02 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 10:02:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
In-Reply-To: <4DBD8AE2.1020701 at io.com>
Message-ID: <288922.36867.qm at web161803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

The truly strong arm swings where it wills, and by the strength of that swing convinces other arms of its rightful rotational reign.

--- On Sun, 5/1/11, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 9:31 AM
> On 5/1/2011 7:08 AM, David Stockhoff
> wrote:
> > Is it impossible? I had no idea. ;)
> 
> If your freedom to swing your arm doesn't end where my nose
> begins, obviously my nose is harmed for the benefit of you
> getting to swing your arm as you like.
> 
> If we agree to limit the freedom to swing our arms where
> the noses of others begins, there's no check on the the
> proliferation of noses and one day I am harmed by the
> atrophy of my arms because there's no room to swing them at
> all.
> 
> We could compromise on a minimum arm-swinging radius, but
> this harms armless people by reducing their nose-room while
> they obviously get no benefit from more arm room.
> 
> And so on.
> 
> -- Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
> Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M
> Texarkana
> < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
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