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

[Ryan Dunn]

What happens if I agree with both of you? Will I spontaneously combust, or worse?

...ryan


On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:46 AM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:

> The only thing that is certain about David is that he will never be caught
> dead agreeing with me.
> 
> He may be perverse enough to agree once or twice starting now that I've
> mentioned it.
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> I could be wrong I suppose.
> 
> .
> 
>> 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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