there can be only one + slight spoiler

maa32 · 15 Nov 2002, 22:06 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) there can be only one + slight spoiler
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:06:15 -0700
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I got a real kick out of Michael Straight's post on the necessity of giving=20
Pas two heads - especially the highlander reference. Any other Highlander f=
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out there?  Do you hate Highlander, Michael?  If we were going to talk abou=
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inconsistencies, that would be the series to debate about.

Hey, here is a brief and small spoiler for the excerpt from Knight.  Don't=20
look unless you are prepared ....

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The narrator meets a tree nymph or a dryad, gets it on with her in the fore=
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and then transforms into something else, an obviously larger body with a=20
sinewy neck than the boy who begins the story.  Just in case you think tree=
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as an agent of transformation for a narrator never entered Wolfe's creative=20
consciousness - it can't be mistaken this time around.

Have fun.
Marc Aramini

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