For Dan - my point

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) For Dan - my point
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 07:03:43 -0700
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Hi Dan.  You suggested, in a manner I'm not quite sure how to take, Tolkien=
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You must miss the point of my post.  It is not that I really want trees to =
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sentient.  It is that I am trying to establish that Blue and Ushas are the=20
same place.  If there are living trees on Urth like there definitely,=20
definitely are on Ushas, then I've just established one more thing that the=
y=20
have in common, like being flooded and having a green planet near them and=20
having huge sea creatures and having the same year and the same gravity.  I=20
don't necessarily want to read about sentient trees.  I want to establish s=
o=20
many connections between Blue and Ushas that the burden of proof shifts awa=
y=20
from me to all those doubters.  Whatever.  I think I'll stop posting for a=20
while.  My whole point is that Wolfe is subtle - not that I think he didn't=20
get good use out of the trees, but that he likes to use background informat=
ion=20
to reveal what's going on (ie - The elm tree planted by Eleanor Bold, the=20
judges daughter, fell last night, waking me from my slumber ... 200 pages=20
later ... Mrs. Porter plants endangered American species on the graves of h=
er=20
friends =3D that kind of subtle treatment of background detail, if you know=
 what=20
I mean).

Chalk it all up to psychotropic drugs.  Naked Lunch with alzabo analeptic. =20
Marc Aramini

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