fifth head owlet- wolf

Marc Aramini · 30 Mar 2013, 15:40 · from 2013-March.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:40:02 -0700
Subject: (urth) fifth head owlet- wolf
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Can the object of a preposition be replaced by a pronoun? Sure.   I think Wolfe intentionally uses ambiguous pronouns that way a lot. 

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On Mar 30, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The them pronoun is ambiguous in reference to the songs of the second people.  In any case, the second people are changed by the first, who do use their hands to take.  No reference is made if the second people use their hands or not, I don't think. 
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 30, 2013, at 8:08 AM, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:
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>> From: Marc Aramini
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>>> But the star faring species in this passage did not use their hands.
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>> Read it again.  It was the first people - the shape changers - who did not use them.  Not the second people who came among them.
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>> - Gerry Quinn 
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