(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned byRudesind

[brunians at brunians.org]

I'm not sure what would happen!

Say, and apropos of nothing, has it occurred to anyone besides David who
has read McCarthy's Blood Meridian that the Judge is could very well be a
larval form of Baldanders?

Note that this would require McCarthy to have read Gene Wolfe.

.

> What happens if I agree with both of you? Will I spontaneously combust, or
> worse?
>
> ...ryan
>
>
> On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:46 AM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>
>> The only thing that is certain about David is that he will never be
>> caught
>> dead agreeing with me.
>>
>> He may be perverse enough to agree once or twice starting now that I've
>> mentioned it.
>>
>> I don't know.
>>
>> I don't think so.
>>
>> I could be wrong I suppose.
>>
>> .
>>
>>> OK, but I don't think that was Ryan's approach either. I just like to
>>> be
>>> totally sure what people are talking about.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I agree with you generally, and yet I also agree with James,
>>> who
>>> is able to put theories out there and let them suffer abuse, and is
>>> also
>>> able to consider rival theories.
>>>
>>> It would be nice to elucidate principles for general application, so
>>> you
>>> don't have to go on explaining how NOT to generate and test theories.
>>>
>>> António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>>> David Stockhoff wrote (08-07-2010 13:13):
>>>>> That was never the approach.
>>>>
>>>> I didn't say it was your David's approach.
>>>>
>>>>> The approach was to try to explain the
>>>>> passage in a way that added significance, that justified itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>>>>> Ryan Dunn wrote (08-07-2010 06:01):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It is the same with my assertion that he told us Agia's skull hit
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> stone with the sound of a hammer, despite her full head of hair.
>>>>>>> That, to
>>>>>>> me, was not just colorful description. It was a clue about the
>>>>>>> nature of
>>>>>>> her skull, and thus HER, and thus her affect on Severian, and thus
>>>>>>> her
>>>>>>> effect on his journey, and the whole book for that matter.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And that's why I think your reducing it to determining at all costs
>>>>>> whether
>>>>>> she is a robot or not is not the correct approach.
>>>>>
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