(urth) planetary problems

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 07:17:38 PST 2010


> Thomas Bitterman-
> En garde!

Touche

> - If, at one point, a character can write himself into a story, why 
> can't it happen again?  How far did Krait have to travel to do that?

What makes you think Krait can do that? When did he do that?

> - Wolfe has already used the sorting order of books for a joke.  In 
> 5HoC he makes the Vernor Vinge/"W" joke.  We almost never ascribe 
> something to Wolfe's sense of humor, but certainly he must use it 
> every once in a while.

Oh. You're making a serious point!

> - The idea that astral travel uses mental maps rather than physical 
> ones is a good one, at least as good as the "Silk = Blue" or "Blue is 
> a time-traveling version of Green" theories that are going around.

Do you really think this is a possibility?

u+16b9


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