a personal tangent in praise of Gene

Andy Robertson · 09 Jan 2002, 16:16 · from whorl-v0013.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (whorl) a personal tangent in praise of Gene
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:16:02 -0000
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Marc, speakng as one overintelligent guy to another, bin there, done that,
go and get drunk, have a hike, do somehting non-cerebral, NOW!!!

    ----- ***** -----


Otherwise, FWIW, I agree with you in many areas - except I do not accept the
literal identity of the planets.

I always thought "trees eating trees" was a poetic way of talking about
arboreal parasitism.    Hmmmm.

But I just read "Silhouette" again - it has apportation, something very like
the notules, and interestingly, motile, fighting, plants . . . .

    Andy R





----- Original Message -----
From: "maa32" <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>

> I just wanted to get that off my chest. And if all that I have done to
reveal
> the grandeur of Wolfe's design does not please you guys, and I am accused
of
> misreading, and beating old theories to death, (I'm only twenty-three, and
> sensitive to all this censure), then just remember how dead this list was
> until I started throwing out outrageous theories - I always find something
new
> to talk about. (of course, that could be because everybody thought the
list
> WAS dying) Do you really want to hurt my feelings? (And if you think I'm
dumb,
> I really did get a 1600 on my SATs, and after months and months my last
> girlfriend randomly dumped me one day through e-mail saying: "Marc, Things
> haven't been going so well.  You are obviously too smart for me.  I'm
sorry if
> it hurts your feelings." When asked, "can we talk about this?" she
replied,
> "no."  I am just very bad at organizing things and staying on one topic)

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