May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 09 Aug 2014, 15:50 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:50:08 -0500
Subject: (urth) FW: May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_
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On 8/8/2014 8:47 AM, Lee wrote:
>> Gerry Quinn: I would say, rather, that I read the writing with care, and do not
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>> tend to construct elaborate scenarios based on words found here and there.
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> This is another way of saying you cannot conceive of the existence, purpose or value
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> of a piece of literature in which 95% of what we are presented are lies and only an
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> indirect 5% can be construed as truth.
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>
> Fair enough. Perhaps you have never encountered a person who manages to delude
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> themselves about themselves and the world so thoroughly that much of what they
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> say has no real ring of truth to it.

I have, but I wouldn't call their narratives literature and can barely 
scruple to call them stories; word salad, maybe.


> I understand it. I not sure I can explain it to someone who doesn't find any appeal
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> in finding one's way through a web of lies and deceit. But I get it. I suspect many
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> other Wolfe fans do also.

Dude, if you want to tell people authoritatively what a story means, it 
would simpler, easier, more credible, and less insulting if you wrote 
your own rather than asserting those already published are only 5% in 
earnest.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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