Silk's origin

entonio at gmail.com · 22 Oct 2011, 17:19 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (entonio at gmail.com)
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:19:40 +0100
Subject: (urth) Silk's origin
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No dia 2011/10/22, ?s 17:23, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>  
escreveu:
>
>> Antonio Pedro Marques: I find your approach radically different  
>> from Lee's.
>> You're a bit like Sherlock Holmes, trying to make sense of the  
>> evidence,
>> trimming out the impossible and putting your trust in the however  
>> improbable.
>
> I agree that Gerry and I have different approaches but I'm not sure  
> this characterizes the difference.

Nor should it, because I was talking about/to *Marc*.

>> Lee on the other hand works mostly like a genetic algorithm. He  
>> thinks of some
>> external myth or theme or leitmotiv and tries to shoehorn the story  
>> into it.
>
> This is not correct. I had a youthful interest in Greek and Norse  
> mythology but I never pursued it into adulthood (until recently).  
> Rather than shoehorning mythology into Gene Wolfe's work, the  
> reverse has happened.  Gene WOlfe's work has forced me to delve much  
> deeper into mythology than I ever had before. In fact, I was pretty  
> proud of myself on first reading BotNS that I knew who mythological  
> Typhon was. But I didn't really know about his relationship to  
> Echidna and Scylla and Sphynx and Phaea and Cerberus, not to mention  
> the Egyptian and Assyrian cognate wind gods such as Typhon-Set and  
> Pazuzu. Long Sun forced me to delve into the myths and learn about  
> them.

Oh, I didn't mean you tried to impose the myths you're aware of on the  
story. I meant you think myths must be the key to it, and that may  
entail researching mythology in order to find usable material (as you  
just went on to explain about FI).

>

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