do the Hierogrammates care about the megatherians?

James Wynn · 23 May 2011, 15:13 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:13:13 -0500
Subject: (urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?
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On 5/23/2011 6:58 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> And while I am not very familiar with Butler's book, I regard it as 
> both more and less than purely factual. The stories of the saints are 
> real, but they are unlikely to be all true. 

This is true of all history.
That, I think, is a lesson we are expected to learn from Wolfe's first 
person-narrative fiction.

J

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