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

[brunians at brunians.org]

This is my general criticism against the ouinusses and ouanquerres that
infest this list.

.


> James Wynn wrote:
>>If it was explained in terms at all before the late 90s, I'm unaware of
>>it. It's not an issue of it being in "un"convincing terms. Perhaps
>>"insufficiently convincing" is accurate, because people can be very hard
>>to convince. But in the late 90s, the explanation was carefully detailed
>>in a way that many people began nodding their heads in agreement.
>
> Ah, I think I understand now. We are talking at cross-purposes. When
> you talk about the Dorcas theory being  'explained' or 'understood'
> you mean 'explained in circles of Wolfean criticism such as this
> list', don't you? But I, and I think also Antonio, Dan'l, Ryan and
> Roy, are talking about how it is explained *in the text*. In the text,
> it is made transparently clear that Dorcas is Severian's grandmother,
> as several people have now come forward and demonstrated.
>
> This is why I can't agree that 'if Wolfe hadn't confirmed the
> grandmother theory, it would be on the Half-Baked Theory pile today'.
> People like us would never have allowed it to languish there.
>
>>If I've inadvertently dissed you, I apologize.
>
> Not at all. I am entirely un-dissed, but thank you.
>
>
> Roy C Lackey wrote:
>>It is stated in the original LEXICON URTHUS, p-90, published in 1994,
>> that
>>Dorcas is Severian's paternal grandmother.
>
> If anyone has issue 164 of Vector, the critical journal of the BSFA,
> they'll see that some tiresome guy called Anthony Ellis stated it back
> in October, 1991. :-)
> _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>