(urth) TSH: Doris and Lupine

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Fri Apr 16 17:52:46 PDT 2010


Oh Joshy

Is a pedant someone who knows more about something than you do?

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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:32:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: brunians at brunians.org
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Subject: Re: (urth) TSH: Doris and Lupine
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You're not being contradictory.

You're being a pedant.

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> Not to be contradictory, but the narrator isn't insane in _Dhalgren_.
> However, the viewpoint character may be.
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

>> Yeah, that's right.
>>
>> It's a very, very bad idea to treat Dhalgren like a Wolfe book.
>>
>> Wolfe uses unreliable narrators.
>>
>> Delany uses an insane narrator.
>>
>> .
>>




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