Clute's Non-Revelation

John Clute · 21 Aug 2000, 18:02 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

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From: jclute at cix.compulink.co.uk (John Clute)
Subject: Re: (whorl) Clute's Non-Revelation
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:02 +0100 (BST)
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Patera Nutria,
        Have just joined WHORL, and don't know etiquette within this=20
august Theatre, but thought I'd tie this to yours on Silk to indicate my=20
intuition that you are probably (though, as you say) not absolutely=20
certainly right. That fasting is what Silk does escaped my memory,=20
certainly, when I was laying down a first _reading_ response to=20
_In Green's Jungles_ .=20
        But to make it absolutely clear what _I_ was doing: no revelations=20
were being hoicked into view, certainly not at this stage: I was laying=20
down for readers far more general than WHORL's List some sense of the=20
pattern of the book: it was, implicitly, an invocation to read out in the=20
open.
        Oreb as Holy Spirit. Very fine. Especially if the bird, in human=20
terms, could be defined as a giant paraclete.

Best,
John C
       =20
       =20


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