(urth) Who's in Oreb
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
danldo at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 15:40:07 PDT 2005
Yes, I agree that the ... unreliable narrator, who is in complete
denial about his own identity ... does indeed seem very
confident about this.
--Dan'l
On 6/27/05, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Well, I will note that I said that the Rajan "ARGUABLY knows AS MUCH
> *or* more about Pas than anyone".
>
> I don't deny there is an argument to be made that others know more.
> But he DOES seem rather confident regarding his knowledge in this
> case.
>
> James Wynn
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
> Sent: Jun 26, 2005 7:35 PM
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> Subject: Re: (urth) Who's in Oreb
>
> On 6/26/05, Chris <rasputin_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As far the dispute that's going on here, while Dan'l is correct about the
> > strict semantic content of the exchange, I think he's incorrect in assuming
> > that Scylla would know her father better. She was a *child*, and
> > realistically how long was it before you really understood your own parents?
>
> She was a child when she was scanned. She has spent three hundred
> years with him in Mainframe.
>
> I don't claim that she has "grown up" in that time, for I don't know
> whether that would be possible (either in the "real" world or in the
> Lupine universe-of-discourse); but I'd be inclined to suspect that
> she's learned a lot about her Da in that time. She is not, after all,
> stupid.
>
>
> > And Scylla's exposure
> > to her father was likely to be quite minimal due to his position, as well -
> > not to mention her personal resentment is going to interfere.
>
> Again, this would be true of Cilinia, but not, I think, of Scylla-in-
> Mainframe: and that's who makes the statement we're dealing
> with here.
>
> --Dan'l
>
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