Like a good Neighbor

Sergei SOLOVIEV · 20 Nov 2011, 19:59 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:59:40 +0100
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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I agree with this - but as we see, my interpretation of concrete text is 
different
of yours (we agreed to disagree). I think that open questions sometimes are
more important that the answers suggested in haste - and so many theories
come to suggest just that - answers, without meditation on the questions.

Sergei

Marc Aramini wrote:
> 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"
>  
> 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
>
>      
>      
>     *From:* Marc Aramini
>     <http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=marcaramini at yahoo.com>
>      
>     ****************
>     > Uhh ... the chapter is titled "the end" and it says "the best
>     part of my life was oveer.
>      
>     > 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.
>      
>     That?s why I qualified ?indicates? with ?strongly?.
>      
>     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.
>      
>     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).
>      
>     So yes, some deathly images.  But no reason to think he actually
>     died then, IMO.
>      
>     - 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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