Like a good Neighbor

Marc Aramini · 20 Nov 2011, 19:56 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:56:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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What gets me is the points where the narrators ponder if they understand what they are saying: "I had to think about what I myself had just said ... it is possible no one understands" that leads me to believe they mysteries are soluble, not just open ended mysteries.? " I have given only scattered hints in spite of all my efforts"
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Those are metatextual statements that the structure is indicated through those scattered hints.? "not my words, not my words"

--- On Sun, 11/20/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:


From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 11:39 AM






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From: Marc Aramini 
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> Uhh ... the chapter is titled "the end" and it says "the best part of my life was oveer.
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> The pit was its grave".? In addition, doesn't she say he was dead?? come on man 
> there are at least some disturbing deathly images.
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That?s why I qualified ?indicates? with ?strongly?.
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As for the first, he says the best part of his life was over, indicating that a worse part was to come.? And indeed, he spent days lying semi-conscious, thirsting and abandoned in a pit, then betrayed his family to the inhumi to get out, then not too long after got kidnapped to a hell planet and killed.? So it sounds like a fair assessment.
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Seawrack thought he was dead, but she, while she may have been born human, knows nothing of humans (*except* perhaps ones that are lured by sirens and are quickly killed).
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So yes, some deathly images.? But no reason to think he actually died then, IMO.
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- Gerry Quinn


--- On Sun, 11/20/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:





Horn didn?t die in the pit.? There?s nothing that strongly indicates that he did and a million things that make it obvious that he didn?t.? 
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