(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Wed Jul 7 11:08:35 PDT 2010


That's an interesting insight.

What is the source of it?

As far as I know there are three or four different kinds of pervert that
Hethor could be.

My source is ten years employment by clinicians treating sex offenders.

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> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:23 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>>   "
>>
>> As for the (ultimately, failed) theory I built concerning Agia, I made
>> the
>> narrative implications very clear. That was indeed the point of the
>> exercise---to take the perceived possibility of a connection between
>> Agia
>> and the doll and test it against the principle that it must add meaning.
>> But
>> it required making up too much stuff---more than it explained---which is
>> a
>> different principle entirely.
>>
>
> Actually, it at least gave me the insight that the "things" Agia "does"
> for
> Hethor probably involve lying very, very still...(shudder)
>
>
>
>>
>> --- On *Wed, 7/7/10, António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by
>> Rudesind
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 12:39 PM
>>
>>  Tim O'Donnell wrote (07-07-2010 17:13):
>> > From: Ant?nio Pedro Marques
>> <entonio at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=entonio@gmail.com>
>> > <mailto:entonio at gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=entonio@gmail.com>>>
>> >
>>
>> And that is precisely my beef with the drive to reduce characters to
>> some
>> specific trait that doesn't mean anything by itself.
>>
>> - Agia must be a robot because blablabla - but at a certain point, what
>> is
>> the relevance of her precise nature?
>>
>> - Rudesind must be FI in disguise because Fechin is a ranga - but what
>> does
>> that gain us?
>>
>> If there is a common theme in the GW works I've read so far - I'm not
>> fortunate enough to have done significant rereading already - is how
>> characters break free from their native, starting conditions. Trying to
>> pin
>> down exactly what those conditions are, and trying to come up with (or
>> outright invent) a definite answer, as if it had in itself a deep
>> significance, is in my view misguided - and harmful when it blinds the
>> mind
>> to the rest. Their precise nature may be explanative of something else,
>> but
>> I just can't see that it can be an interesting fact all by itself.
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