myth

maa32 · 17 Feb 2002, 17:36 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) myth
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:36:22 -0700
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Rostrum, I just thought of something else you might want to look at to make=20
sense of the status of the information presented in the third person sectio=
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of return to the whorl: The narrator at one point at the end of Return to t=
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Whorl starts going off about myth and its relationship to history.  If you=20
want to view Silk as mythic after just one generation, then perhaps the=20
construction of these stories and the deliberate literary effects contribut=
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to the "construction of myth".  The narrator takes a very conservative stan=
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on myth, claiming that it is very closely tied to reality, and is relevant =
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humanity.  I don't remember exactly where it is, but the passage might be=20
useful if you could find it.  I'll look if I have time today.
Marc Aramini

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