theories

Sergei SOLOVIEV · 24 Oct 2011, 12:07 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:07:15 +0200
Subject: (urth) theories
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What I don't like in these theories, it is the complete disregard to 
Gene Wolfe
many times proclaimed Christian message. Is he lying when he says that he is
a Catholic? Is he in fact trying to pass a "diabolic" message (or at 
least trying to play
with this interpretation as equally probable) like Polyanski? Where are 
the proofs?
They are shaky, and when somebody says that you jump readily to "fuck 
off" style.
By the way, how one can easily ignore the posts of somebody
who takes maybe 20% of the whole discussion?

Sergei

Lee Berman wrote:
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>> Gerry Quinn: As for Inire as the old boatman, I really don?t understand why 
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>> people take such ideas seriously.
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> What's wrong with taking it seriously because an intelligent reader who is
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> highly familiar with BotNS sees it? Perhaps you consider me stupid?
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>> So tell me.  Where?s all this ?Inire is the boatman stuff? getting us?
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>> Can somebody explain how they understand Dorcas? character and story in this 
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> Who exactly is "us"? Why not say "me"? Is trying to herd everyone here into
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> one gelatinous, like-thinking, single minded clusterfuck really your idea of 
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> "getting somewhere"?
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> Gerry, if you don't find any merit in my posts, I don't think you should read them 
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> or respond to them. Instead you incessantly, relentlessly respond to them and are 
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> now seem to be calling for a vote to have them banned from discussion.
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> Anyway, if you read the text with care you will find much about the character Dorcas
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> which is mysterious and unexplained. Likewise with Severian. For me, idenfifying
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> Father Inire as inhabiting key places in the story solves these mysteries and 
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> explains the unexplained. 
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> If this doesn't work for you then don't read my posts. Or come up with your own theories.
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> Or just be quiet for a while. Why try to nudge this forum away from a particular topic? 
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> If you don't like it simply don't participate.
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> Do you consider yourself the Captain at "our" ship's wheel, trying to keep your often
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> wayward crew's course straight and true? Aye, aye, Skipper and avast me hearties? WTF? 		 	   		  
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