vanished people=Hieros

Nick Lee · 07 Nov 2011, 22:15 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: starwaterstrain at gmail.com (Nick Lee)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:15:59 -0600
Subject: (urth)  vanished people=Hieros
Message-ID: <CAMwAopRpXY5tN9d+yoVrWjCQFB=Z-Gwtw1Wikq2VP3n4E6cSDg at mail.gmail.com>

>
> To a chain of random associations, apparently.

Maybe.

You remind me of those fundamentalists who read their sacred text,
arrive at one interpretation of it, and then call other
interpretations heretical.

To be fair, I've shared many of your frustrations with Wolfe
interpretation. I've thrown my copies of Borski's books across the
room many times. I still think Marc's ideas about Blue and Green are
unpersuasive.

At some point I decided that I did not know what Wolfe's stories
meant. I decided it was all right to entertain notions that might seem
far fetched to see if anything substantive could be made of them.

You seem confident that you do know what Wolfe's stories mean. If that
is the case, I don't know why you bother with this list.

If my idea about the green man does not pan out, then so be it. All I
will have lost is time, but I will have spent it reading material I
enjoy and exercising my thought processes. That's all literary
interpretation is about, anyway. It's not empirical.

You'd probably hate the paper I wrote about *Pandora by Holly
Hollander*. I made some pretty outlandish "random connections" in that
one. It was still fun, though.
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