Short Story 81: Suzanne Delage

Gerry Quinn · 06 Aug 2014, 13:22 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:22:07 +0100
Subject: (urth) Short Story 81: Suzanne Delage
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On 06/08/2014 14:07, Marc Aramini wrote:
> I wrote this step in the exegesis just for you, Gerry ;)
>
> 1)That an extraordinary event actually could be forgotten, so that he 
> can't be trusted to reliably remember it. If he could remember it, 
> then the premise of the story is invalid. If we do not accept this 
> premise, the analysis can stop right here -- the extraordinary event 
> in his life is that he never met Suzanne Delage.

Indeed, that is the extraordinary event.  The point of the story is its 
implications.  There's also the question of *why*, to which it seems we 
are given no answer.

- Gerry Quinn
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