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Pandora, By Holly Hollander, by Gene Wolfe, By Kurt Vonnegut
↰ answers Jim Henley
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A fair but not trivial question. I'm assuming we're considering this as if the fictional Kilgore Trout were real - we're not considering the question of what happens if Vonnegut writes a story reproducing the entire text of TBOTNS by Trout, or even Philip Jose Farmer writing TBOTNS while pretending to be KT. (One knew that someone was pretending to be KT.)
Well, when Vonnegut writes
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges."
it's certainly much different than Wolfe's
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges."
You can clearly see the difference. Alot of other identical texts are pretty different too. Do you think Vonnegut did that intentionally? Vonnegut's Severian lies alot less than Wolfe's does too.
:-)
Paul