Like a good Neighbor

Marc Aramini · 21 Nov 2011, 20:24 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:24:04 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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--- On Mon, 11/21/11, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> It seems to me that what you do is find the easiest path to
> the lowest place and amaze yourself at how easy it is to
> defend it. You are Wolfe's ideal foolish reader---you fall
> for every single one of his plausible surface explanations,
> which are ALWAYS provided. It's as though he makes a place
> where one can stand and see nothing going on in all
> directions; you seek that place and on finding it feel you
> have done real work getting there.
> 
> Remarkably, all one really needs to do to achieve this
> state is to never, ever have read another book of
> literature. Literature has only camels to offer anyway.
> _______________________________________________

heh heh heh. they are fun on a second reading to see through, but those plausible surface explanations get old when you are trying to delineate a very simple point.  "Babbie is asking for a weapon there cuz Hoof sayz so."  ARGH

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