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[James Wynn]

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>>>> On 7/9/2010 12:12 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
>>>>> Could the elderly person in Casdoe's house be an aquastor?
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>>>> 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?
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>>> On 7/9/2010 12:59 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>> Hey!
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>> James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 19:26):
>> 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".
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> On 7/9/2010 2:27 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> It's not my fault if you can't read.

Read what? Still no citation? Tsk tsk.
Five dodges now.

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>> James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 19:26):
>> 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".
> On 7/9/2010 2:27 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> If X then X?

Irrelevant question in this case. No speculated advantage. See what I 
did above? I used specific instances and showed how they were different. 
Try that.

> On 7/9/2010 2:27 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> Way to go about not saying anything.

Self-congratulation is unseemly, Antonio.

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