A Price on my Head (was: Wash Post article)

Nicholas Gevers · 18 Apr 2002, 08:25 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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Subject: (urth) A Price on my Head (was: Wash Post article)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:25:27 +0100 (BST)
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Nigel Price: Thanks for your kind remarks about my
article. In response to your points:

1) When I referred to Wolfe as a maze builder, yes, I
certainly had =E2=80=9CA Solar Labyrinth=E2=80=9D (one of Wolfe=E2=80=99s b=
est
stories) in mind, but the labyrinth metaphor is one
with a broad natural application to Wolfe. It simply
fits, specific story or no. Your analysis of Wolfe=E2=80=99s
shifting shadows of significance is elegantly
formulated. That example of the end of LONG SUN is a
good one=E2=80=94when I wrote my =E2=80=9CFive Steps Towards Briah=E2=80=9D
article back in =E2=80=9998, the flight from false world to
pleroma seemed very clear, but the bases shifted for
SHORT SUN=E2=80=94somewhat, not invalidating but rather
recontextualising what had gone before.

2) Colons: I=E2=80=99m an inveterate user of colons and
semicolons; I like long, rhetorically balanced
sentences. I think the editors at the Wash Post did a
lot of repunctuating in the article, and the standards
they used were very much theirs.

3) Yes, I=E2=80=99m proposing that 5HC is part of the Briah
Cycle, retrospectively included of course. As I
recently said in response to Kevin Maroney, this is
experimental, something I think should be tested, and
used if found to be sound. I think that the twin
planet parallel requires that my hypothesis be
conceded. Perhaps I should articulate a challenge, to
those who don=E2=80=99t think 5HC is set in Briah: what
actually disqualifies my assumption? Why do you say so
emphatically that 5HC doesn=E2=80=99t fit?=20

--Nick Gevers.

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