Doors: opening the man trap

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 16 Jan 2003, 18:33 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Doors: opening the man trap
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:33:43 -0700
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Marc wrote:

> Mr. Green is just kind of dumb.

Bingo.

In Wolfe's words, from that same interview:

"He is kind of dumb, but he is a nice guy...=3D20

"In There Are Doors I wanted to do something that I think has=3D20
only rarely been done. It certainly has been done, but it isn't=3D20
done very often. I wanted to present a protagonist who isn't=3D20
very intelligent. Green isn't. He has almost no virtues. By that=3D20
I don't mean that he has many vices, but he is not outstanding=3D20
in any good way. He is a man of very limited intelligence, not=3D20
terribly courageous, not terribly energetic or enterprising or=3D20
any of those other things. He is the sort of man who would be=3D20
quite content to work all his life in a dead end job and never=3D20
try to get very far outside of that..."

--Blattid

--=20

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