{spoiler} thoughts

Henry Kaiser · 09 Feb 2001, 14:04 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Henry Kaiser <hkaiser at mindspring.com>
Subject: (whorl) {spoiler}  thoughts
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 14:04:42
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Here=B9s my list of questions / discussion items:

1) "Good Fishing! Good Fishing! Good Fishing! Good Fishing! Good Fishing! "
What narrative voice is that at the end in the final two paragraphs?
Is that Daisy writing the last 2 paragraphs or someone else? It=B9s someone
who can look through a telescope to see the whorl.
Is that Gene's voice saying goodbye to His departing 5 characters in a happ=
y
Catholic ending?
Is it Daisy be slightly humorous, and understanding the whole of the
preceding narrative text; making an Oreb joke?
Scylla possessing Daisy, imitating Oreb?

2) How did they get the Whorl ready to leave so fast?  Earlier, we were tol=
d
by the surgeon on pg. 331 that it make take =B3...years. A lifetime, likely a=
s
not.=B2 to ready for departure. It does not seem like it's more than a year o=
r
two later at the end of the narrative and it's already out of sight of the
naked eye.

3) How many narrators, total, in the 3 SS books, do you count?

4)  The Godling bothered me a bit.  It was too big to be a functioning meat
animal in a 1G gravity field. It was much bigger than Baldanders and it
didn=B9t need to stay in the water. It just stuck out for me as something tha=
t
had no apparent technological explanation. Sure it came from the tanks, but
it was just too big for me to swallow.....

5) I noticed something odd at Amazon.com when I posted a little positive
review of the RTTW. At the beginning of a paragraph on Oreb, I said that I
was a sucker for talking animal movies. Amazon deleted most of that
paragraph and replaced it with (...). Maybe an automatic editor looks for
obscene language like =B3sucker=B2 and replaces it?

6) I am looking forward to rereading all three books and looking closely at
everything that Oreb has to say in light of the knowledge of the complete
narrative.......

Henry Kaiser

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Here=B9s my list of questions / discussion items:<BR>
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1) </FONT>&quot;Good Fishing! Good Fishing! Good Fishing! Good Fishing! Goo=
d Fishing! &quot;<BR>
What narrative voice is that at the end in the final two paragraphs?<BR>
Is that Daisy writing the last 2 paragraphs or someone else? It=B9s someone w=
ho can look through a telescope to see the whorl. <BR>
Is that Gene's voice saying goodbye to His departing 5 characters in a happ=
y Catholic ending?<BR>
Is it Daisy be slightly humorous, and understanding the whole of the preced=
ing narrative text; making an Oreb joke?<BR>
Scylla possessing Daisy, imitating Oreb?<BR>
<BR>
2) How did they get the Whorl ready to leave so fast? &nbsp;Earlier, we wer=
e told &nbsp;by the surgeon on pg. 331 that it make take =B3...years. A lifeti=
me, likely as not.=B2 to ready for departure. It does not seem like it's more =
than a year or two later at the end of the narrative and it's already out of=
 sight of the naked eye.<BR>
<BR>
3) How many narrators, total, in the 3 SS books, do you count?<BR>
<BR>
4) &nbsp;The Godling bothered me a bit. &nbsp;It was too big to be a functi=
oning meat animal in a 1G gravity field. It was much bigger than Baldanders =
and it didn=B9t need to stay in the water. It just stuck out for me as somethi=
ng that had no apparent technological explanation. Sure it came from the tan=
ks, but it was just too big for me to swallow.....<BR>
<BR>
5) I noticed something odd at Amazon.com when I posted a little positive re=
view of the RTTW. At the beginning of a paragraph on Oreb, I said that I was=
 a sucker for talking animal movies. Amazon deleted most of that paragraph a=
nd replaced it with (...). Maybe an automatic editor looks for obscene langu=
age like =B3sucker=B2 and replaces it?<BR>
<BR>
6) I am looking forward to rereading all three books and looking closely at=
 everything that Oreb has to say in light of the knowledge of the complete n=
arrative.......<BR>
<BR>
Henry Kaiser<BR>
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