Overthinking/Underthinking "The Fifth Head of Cerberus"

Marc Aramini · 11 Aug 2014, 18:59 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:59:47 -0700
Subject: (urth) Overthinking/Underthinking "The Fifth Head of Cerberus"
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It is Marsch's origin story overlain on the historical tale.

There is a wonderful scene where the cat is running around trying to bite
him in the third novella and he narrowly escapes, and both the audience and
Marsch are unaware of the severe consequences of the bite, giving him a few
more days.  He is bitten on the major Rogation Day.


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think an important point is being missed here. People keep treating "A
> Story" as if it were reliable. Give some thought to who wrote it and why
> and then decide whether (and to what extent) you think it's reliable.
>
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> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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