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Sergei SOLOVIEV · 04 Nov 2011, 19:40 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:40:03 +0100
Subject: (urth) This week  in Google alerts
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It means (IMHO) that in a good book (and in its interpretation) there is 
an hierarchy of ideas.
If all are equally genial they cancel each other, and overall impression 
is poor. To me,
if you try to turn every detail into the key to all secrets, it is 
exactly what will happen.
There are details that help to create certain background feeling (level 
of technology,
type of society, psychology of characters), there are others that 
explain for example
the relations between personages and important turns of the plot (like 
real relationship
between Talos and Baldanders) and indeed others that may be key to 
principal ideas
of the author. I think sceptic reaction to many theories is healthy - 
every detail
cannot be principal.

Sergei

David Stockhoff wrote:
> On 11/4/2011 3:11 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
>> To me (IMHO) Gerry's inference looks much more convincing and closer 
>> to the text,
>> let's be fair. "Silver screen" is (or at least was in 70-es) a 
>> commonplace
>> speaking about the television. Moreover, the cathode ray tubes (when 
>> television used them)
>> contained silver
>>
>> >The phosphor viewing surface is formed from a continuous layer of a 
>> single material in >monochromatic CRTs, or is composed of individual 
>> dots of three different materials in color CRTs. >Zinc sulfide is a 
>> common phosphor material. The color is determined by adding a very 
>> small >amount of material called an activator. Zinc sulfide with 
>> 0.01% silver activator emits a blue light. >When a 0.001% copper 
>> activator is used, it produces a green light. A 50/50 mixture of zinc 
>> sulfide >and cadmium sulfide with a 0.005% silver activator produces 
>> a yellow light. Red light can be >produced by adding silver or copper 
>> to zinc sulfide
>>
>> Probably you don't remember that, but I think GW does, and it is a 
>> very fine reference
>> to the technology level in the Whorl.
>>
>> Sergei 
>
>
> I have no doubt about that interpretation at all. But what does it 
> mean? What does it do?
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