Extended Meditation on Rorschach Novels (was RE: (urth) Coldhouse Banshee)

William Ansley · 27 Aug 2002, 19:32 · from urth-v0208.mbox · original

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From: "William Ansley" <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: Re: Extended Meditation on Rorschach Novels (was RE: (urth) Coldhouse Banshee)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:32:35 -0400
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>The question that I asked above then=20
>breaks down, in this terminology, into three separate but
>deeply interrelated questions, as follows: (1) For a given=20
>lacuna, or a given _type_ of lacuna, can we reasonably assume=20
>that Wolfe himself had some specific content in mind? (2) If=20
>so, can we reasonably assume that he expected his readers to=20
>extrapolate something similar to what he imagined? And if not,
>was he even aware of the lacuna when he wrote?

Is "And if not, was he even aware of the lacuna when he wrote?" your 'quest=
ion
number 3' or have your supplied us with a lacuna of your own? <G>

William Ansley

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