(urth) Monkey business

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 12:27:35 PDT 2010


James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 19:26):
>
>>
>>> On 7/9/2010 12:12 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
>>>> Could the elderly person in Casdoe's house be an aquastor?
>>>
>>> James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 18:35):
>>> Sure. But anyone...probably any living thing...could be an aquastor. Why
>>> would being an aquastor help things along?
>>
>> On 7/9/2010 12:59 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>> Hey!
>
> Bait the hook, then reel them in. You still haven't delineated the
> relevant differences between "Inire is Rudesind" and "Dorcas is
> Severian's grandmother".

It's not my fault if you can't read.

> So this gives me a chance to show the value of
> wild speculation.
>
> There's no reason to get Talmudic on the difference between your
> proposed standard and my question. I am only asking "How does viewing
> the old man as an aquastor resolve the apparent connection between him
> and Rudesind?" Also, "How does the old man being an aquastor resolve the
> issue posed by Mr Berman that the old man might be female?"
>
> What I am not asking is "What difference would it make if the old man
> and Rudesind were connected?" or "If the old man is an aquastor, then
> what?" Because in these instances the question is the answer: "The old
> man and Rudesind might be connected" and "The old man might be an
> aquastor".

If X then X?

Way to go about not saying anything.



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