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Good Wolfe short story in Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine [January]
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So do you think Wolfe whipped this out as a morality tale response to the American anger at the terrorists of Sept. 11th? Caution against the mob destroying what they fear? Or did he have it written and sold long before Sept 11th?
As usual there are a few things I do not understand.
The exact nature of the Flying People. Are the invisible or not? Why did Bin seem to think the boy was invisible when onlookers say the boy with Bin from a distance constantly?
Why did the Flying People boy have no guilt about what happened to those who harbored him? I assumed he was trying to convince people through a grass roots effort that progress was not evil. Instead in the end he seemed like a caprious fey personality.
Very enjoyable writing.
Concerning Wolfe's use of the word Neighbor and it's shortening to Niman, etc.
Niman Pryderi defined Neighbor as "Neighbor meant that a man was one of us, and not one of them."
Do you think this carries any meaning to the Book of the Short Sun's Neighbors? Is that why the people of Blue called them Neighbors? Using the same definition?
After reading this definition it seems strange that the people of Blue would call them Neighbors when they definitely did not seem to consider them "more like us, not like them." Just wondered if there was something about Blue and Green's Neighbors that I missed that would make them "one of us not them."
Dennis/Endy
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<DIV>Good Wolfe short story in Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine
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<DIV>So do you think Wolfe whipped this out as a morality tale response to the
American anger at the terrorists of Sept. 11th? Caution against the mob
destroying what they fear? Or did he have it written and sold long before
Sept 11th?</DIV>
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<DIV>As usual there are a few things I do not understand.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The exact nature of the Flying People. Are the invisible or
not? Why did Bin seem to think the boy was invisible when onlookers say
the boy with Bin from a distance constantly?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Why did the Flying People boy have no guilt about what happened to those
who harbored him? I assumed he was trying to convince people through a
grass roots effort that progress was not evil. Instead in the end he
seemed like a caprious fey personality.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Very enjoyable writing.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Concerning Wolfe's use of the word Neighbor and it's shortening to Niman,
etc.</DIV>
<DIV>Niman Pryderi defined Neighbor as "Neighbor meant that a man was one of us,
and not one of them."</DIV>
<DIV>Do you think this carries any meaning to the Book of the Short Sun's
Neighbors? Is that why the people of Blue called them Neighbors?
Using the same definition?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>After reading this definition it seems strange that the people of Blue
would call them Neighbors when they definitely did not seem to consider them
"more like us, not like them." Just wondered if there was something about
Blue and Green's Neighbors that I missed that would make them "one of us not
them."</DIV>
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