theories

Sergei SOLOVIEV · 24 Oct 2011, 18:34 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:34:57 +0200
Subject: (urth) theories
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About Dorcas sitting in a window.

As far as I remember,

a) she was sitting after she was married
b) it was a shop window, i.e. - ground floor
c) it was in Nessus, at that time, at a lively city street
d) in the Fechin story, it was more "rustic" paysage
e) not the ground floor
f) the Casdoe father could wait calmly outside
while Fechin visited the girl - not very likely
on some street in Nessus
g) also the school described by Casdoe father looks
very poor and "rustic".
h) I don't remember what is said about the complexion
of the girl visited by Fechin, but something was said,
and it doesn't sound like Dorcas.

I am not convinced that it is the same situation.

Sergei

David Stockhoff wrote:
> On 10/24/2011 1:57 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>> I can't even deal with all that here. Let me just focus on the window 
>> memory as an example. If we
>> >  accept that Dorcas' husband is Inire and we accept that Fechin is 
>> Inire, that mystery is solved.
>> >  The old person in Casdoe's cabin tells a story about Fechin's 
>> romantic meeting with a beautiful
>> >  young woman who sits in a window. I think she is Dorcas.
>
> It's true that Dorcas herself remembers sitting in a window. That's a 
> nice connection.
>
> I wonder if Wolfe was in a deep Proustian false memory-trance during 
> the whole writing of TBotNS.

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