5HX

Marc Aramini · 24 Aug 2014, 16:52 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:52:10 -0700
Subject: (urth) 5HX
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It takes about three days for Marsch to be reborn on Easter Sunday from the
bite as something different - his body undergoes a harrowing over that
period of time.  The existence of two alien races is simple: it creates a
means for "Other" to be persecuted -  abo incarcerated by humans or shadow
child incarcerated by abos who believe themselves to be human. Abo
incarcerated by abo makes no sense. The officer making a slave open the
document with a knife and then showering prophylactically shows
a strange unhandiness and a fear of saliva. This multiplication of species
must serve a narrative purpose.  The switch of Sandwalker to Eastwind and
the human landers suddenly not knowing what open hands mean shows the
climactic switch when humans are replaced by abos who now believe
themselves to be humans.  Why bring up Liev's postulate at all if it isn't
even a possibility?  It is present in the text.  So are meta statements
like "don't ask me how big a child is".  The details of A Story honestly
don't make much sense unless they are pointing to a symbolic representation
of Marsch's fate to elucidate the two life cycles at work - larval, adult,
sessile carapace/tree and an infectious empathic one.

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Marsch the infected kills his own eventual killer, the cat, who had an
> empathetic association with Victor (and passed this to Marsch), and places
> the cat at Victor's dead feet.  That stuff happened just as Wolfe wrote it,
> no fabrication necessary. The boy fell to his death, VRT is "variance
> reduction techniques".
>
> The bite is definitely not a fabrication, but you guys can believe
> whatever you want.  There's actually extremely little fabrication in Fifth
> Head of Cerberus, but no overt explanation of mechanisms.
>
>  On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:
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