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

[David Stockhoff]

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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