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The man argues like a protestant.

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> James Wynn wrote (09-07-2010 20:35):
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>> 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".
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Citation of what, James? I've said which two things are wrong with your
> question and given a further explanation. Since your attention span seems
> not be be having the best of days, I'll repeat them, which is something I
> abhor.
>
> 1. Why your first question made no sense at all:
> On 7/7/2010 4:18 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote: I'm not talking about
> narrative advantage. I'm talking about speculative advantage. And as a
> side note I'm against the idea of narrative advantage. I don't see that
> real life employs it, why should fiction?
>
> 2. Once you had corrected it, the information you ask for is in the
> archives
> and I have better things to do than reenact the whole discussion:
> On 7/7/2010 6:05 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote: That has been
> discussed to death.
>
> 3. If you're really interested to know what's different instead of simply
> trying to sound clever, you can start with this:
> On 7/9/2010 5:56 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote: One key difference is
> that
> Dorcas being Severian's grandmother tells us
> something about a character we knew nothing about (Dorcas as Severian's
> grandmother) and Severian's family tree, i.e. the level of data increases.
> Whereas Rudesind being Inire actually decreases the amount of data by
> dropping one character.
> And again, the identity of Dorcas is all but spelled out. When discussing
> whether or not she was Severian's grandmother, it's more of a debate
> between
> 'she obviously is' and 'it's so obvious maybe it's wrong'.
>
>
> It would be quite nice if you'd keep track of what people say and didn't
> mangle the quotation system. It's not hard, you know. On the top of every
> quotation, there is a line saying who said what when. Then the text is
> indented by a greater-then sign. This can be nested. If people don't mess
> with it, as you do by trimming, then it's easy to follow the conversation.
> Plus, if you actually take the time to read what the other person says,
> you
> won't have to keep asking when did they say what.
>
> You want me to replay the discussions from the archives? How stupid would
> I
> have to be to do your bidding? You don't get any rhetorical edge by making
> preposterous challenges.
>
>>>> 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.
>
> You showed no such thing.
>
>>> On 7/9/2010 2:27 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>> Way to go about not saying anything.
>>
>> Self-congratulation is unseemly, Antonio.
>>
>> u+16b9
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