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From: Michael Andre-Driussi
<mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Cilinia's mausoleum
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I wrote:
Jerry Friedman wrote:
(Chap. 19, a mausoleum [apparently not Severian's
hideout] in the necropolis
Ah, this has been established (or otherwise
achieved consensual validity in
excess of 51%)? I hadn't known, I must have missed
that . . . it poses a
leap I cannot follow.
Nevermind. I withdraw the statement/question.
And here I brought the books in to work (I'm just
part-time) to post the relevant quotes!
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OTOH, it does lead to an interesting notion: what
if, instead of a FAQ
about a book/series/story, what if there was a
position tabulation, sort of
like a voting ballet, showing broad points
("Participants like the piece"
xx%; "Respondents dislike the piece" xx%), then
medium points, down to fine
detail points?
It would be a digested digest, I suppose. A
tallying person would read
through the thread, picking out the various points
of concensus and
contention, then use these to create the ballot.
Rather like making an
index, in a way. The ballot could then be voted on
afresh, or the
percentages could just be filled in based on how the
discussion seemed to
go in the original.
At the end of this there would be these handly
little one-page summaries of
where everybody has been and which sides they were
on. Like a busload of
tourists posing for a snapshot.
That would be something!
I'd certainly be interested in this, though it would
be a big project.
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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at ungames.com>
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Ahah! The Wolfe Seminar! We could all get pink, red,
grey, and black balls
and vote on whether Severian is his own mother....
Thanks to you, I now have learned a little about the
Jesus Seminar. But come on! Everybody knows that
Severian's mother, after walking the corridors of
time, played holy Katherine at the torturers' feast!
Ha ha only kidding.
Jerry Friedman