(urth) on the setting of short sun
Chris
rasputin_ at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 17 22:03:49 PST 2007
I actually believe there is a good argument to be made for there being an important shift in the narration at exactly the point you suggest. I think there are a number of plausible reasons for it, though.
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"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set." -- Lin Yutang
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:43:59 -0800
> From: marcaramini at yahoo.com
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Subject: (urth) on the setting of short sun
>
> Well, the face of time travel has reared its head
> again on the Urth discussion list.
>
> My arguments that Urth-Lune was Blue Green were never
> as important to me as the idea that the trees of Blue
> and Green were creating the vanished people by
> consuming them, spitting out copies, and causing all
> the weird stuff in the text to happen (at the end of
> On Blue's Waters, when Horn says good-bye under the
> big tree, I fervently believe that it is the end of
> Horn as narrator and the beginning of Silk as narrator
> - facilitated by the tree, whereas Horn goes to ride
> the beast with three horns, babbie.)
>
> I believe this link is the entire argument, including
> polyploidy, time travel, and transubstantiation, for
> those who have not been exposed to it before.
>
> http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/chras-writers/marc-aramini1.htm
>
> I hope those who have not yet read it have a chance
> to, but I have little desire to argue about it anymore
> with the list.
>
> Marc
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