Maximum Delusion theory--Ziggurat

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From: Patri10629 at AOL.COM
Subject: (urth) Re:Maximum Delusion theory--Ziggurat
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 16:08:32 EST
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Must agree with Alga and Nutria.

Swanwick's reading seems cockamamie to me.  I mean where do we point at the=20
text and say: There! He's a totally untrustworthy narrator? See? Where do w=
e=20
see some evidence of self-delusion, true psychosis? Where do we see him as=20
murderous? All the violence in the story is directed at himself. And in=20
self-defense at the end. Where do we see him threatening, wishing harm or i=
ll=20
on the coyote, his son, his children, his wife? Cloning? Where do we get=20
cloning? Sure there's an analogy between the 3 woman and the women in his=20
life. But cloning?

The text does not suggest this to me after 4 readings.

This reading, as far as I can tell, demands that we deny 90% of what we're=20
told happened in the story.=20

Wish I could expand, but must go. It's a dreadful interpretation of what I=20
take to be a story of reconciliation between the sexes not madness or inces=
t.

But that's my take.

Rave on lupines!

Patrick O'leary

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