Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?

Gerry Quinn · 18 Dec 2011, 00:34 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:34:25 -0000
Subject: (urth) Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?
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From: David Stockhoff 

On 12/17/2011 6:54 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:

> > > > Yes. To what enchantment do you refer?
> > > That which kept her preserved and asleep for some 20 years. (You can
> > > argue that this did not happen, and I agree. But then there are two
> > > narratives here, aren't there? And one of them is informed by various
> > > tales about preserving sleep underground, and women in lakes.)
> > That?s a circular argument. ?Dorcas is like Sleeping Beauty. Therefore 
> > she was under an enchantment, rather than dead. Therefore she is like 
> > Sleeping Beauty.?
> "Dorcas is like Sleeping Beauty, in that she was apparently under an 
> enchantment, rather than dead." There---fixed it.
At the cost of having to assume Severian?s power is something considerably different and weaker than what we thought ? i.e. when he resurrects someone it was because she was set up to be ?resurrected?.
That?s one way of recognising bad ideas ? taking their implications seriously does violence to the storyline and characters.
- Gerry Quinn
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