pale face

maa32 · 31 Mar 2002, 22:13 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) pale face
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:13:48 -0700
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Roy commented that the pale face under water in chapter 6 might have been=20
seawrack.  Wasn't he already with Seawrack by then?  Is that a flashback? H=
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should know that she plumbs the depths in her swim - I don't know.  Seawrac=
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seems to be such an odd answer to an event that disturbs the narrator a gre=
at=20
deal.  He reacts strongly to the face and thinks it might be driftwood,=20
providing a weird rationale when he already has an excuse in the form of=20
Seawrack.  Why would she scare him so much?

Let's not argue about misrepresentations: when I said immediately, I mean i=
n a=20
three or four page span unseparated by any spaces or whorls in the text, a=20
"section" that is included as one unit, in this case a section of only thre=
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pages in the SFBC edition.  That would seem to be immediately following.  I=20
apologize if my semantics were obscure in any way.

Any comments about the stuff I said about the "scarcely" business in IGJ an=
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how the narrator can't believe that a creator would make two related specie=
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in two different places?   Wasn't that important to the context: if you can=20
posit a direct relationship between the vanished people and normal people,=20
then the narrator is in effect saying they would not have sprung up in two=20
different places, when one would do.  This is the sentence immediately=20
preceding the one you quoted on p 349, I believe. Right?

Marc Aramini

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