(urth) planetary problems

[James Wynn]

>> James Wynn-
>> However, if Horn encountered a white rabbit with a pocket
>> watch who was late for an appointment and a little blonde girl chasing
>> him, or a detective in a hunter's cap who was investigating the Hound of
>> the Baskervilles, this would be a different _kind_ of story.
>
> Jeff Wilson-
> How about a scientist who plays God by performing forbidden 
> experiments in a castle by a lake, or a mechanical workman who has 
> traveled many leagues looking for a way to fall in love, or a 
> forgotten king of kings represented only by some ancient statuary in 
> some distant, uninhabitable corner of the world he once ruled?

All totally different. The first is an example "persons becoming myth" 
that I spoke of. The second is literary allusion: the author embedding 
literature into his narrative, not the characters escaping their 
narrative into another work. The third? Well, I don't think Wolfe 
considers that merely literature. That's just the equivalent of Severian 
going to Lake Diuturna-- (a real live lake that happens to also be in 
Wolfe's story, like putting Dracula in London.

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