Pike's ghost

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 29 Nov 2011, 17:11 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:11:42 -0800
Subject: (urth) Pike's ghost
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Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (29-11-2011 16:55):

>>>> Why do you believe enlightenment came to Patera Silk in the ball court?
>>
>>> Because the text says so.
>>
>> Which means that Horn and Nettle say so. To what extent may we rely
>> upon their interpretation of this event?
>
> And to what extent may we rely on their assertion that they wrote LS?
>
> And to what extent may we rely on their actual existence?
>
> Come to think of it, it may well be the case that all those stories are the
> product of someone's imagination.

Well, obviously they're the product of Wolfe's imagination; the
question is to what extent, within the posited reality of Wolfe's
imagination, we may rely upon what they say about Silk's
enlightenment. I _want_ the enlightenment to be real, because it makes
the story much better (for me). But we have to keep in mind that we
are talking about an account written by a couple of Silk fanboyz
(well, a fanboy and a fangirl), based on hearsay, several years after
the events in question.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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