Short Story 117: Read Me

Marc Aramini · 27 Jan 2015, 01:45 · from 2015-January.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:45:21 -0700
Subject: (urth) Short Story 117: Read Me
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Sure - in claw of the conciliator when jonas and sev are taken to the
antechamber where people spend their whole lives waiting for sentencing,
jonas starts quoting carroll about the knight sliding up the poker or
something. I mention it in the Cat short story writeup as well i think ...
even alluding to the cat as something like the chesire variety.  The
mirrors of inire attain a quality like the looking glass in that scene as
well, i think. Clearly jonas has read lewis carroll.
On Jan 26, 2015 4:23 PM, "Michael Thayer" <michael.o.thayer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Mark - Thanks for the interesting explication of this curious short short
> story (I hadn't encountered it before).  In your review, you allude to some
> Lewis Carroll allusion in TBOTNS.  I think I missed this and would be
> curious to know what specifically you have in mind?
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