(urth) Wind god

[James Wynn]

> António Pedro Marques-
> Apples, oranges. Theories don't enter the picture. We're talking about 
> facts. We're talking about a certain 'kind of selective reading'.

EVERYBODY selectively reads a Wolfe novel, if they've read him long. 
Anyone who says he has not is selectively recalling.  (I would not say 
such people are bending or misrepresenting the facts, since that 
statement implies it is done intentionally.) Furthermore, "people" 
regularly, and irritatingly, declare things "proved" or proved false 
that have not in fact been proven. Shall we denounce those as well for 
unscrupulous methods? Why should we? Who the Niflheim cares? Let them 
say it.

I don't find Lee's GUT compelling, but I don't think he's engaged in a 
Council on Foreign Relations plot to seduce me with it. It's generally 
very difficult to keep all of the Sun Cycle in your head at all times. 
And even if you could, no will ascribe the same importance to all its 
parts. And some bits are so useless literally that they *have* to be 
pointing at something else--IMO. And I, for one, do not believe all the 
answers are in the text. I think Wolfe has deliberately left out key 
answers because he thought them too obvious. I could name a couple of 
confirmed examples. You have to engage in cognitive leaps sometimes. And 
people have made false jumps only to land serendipitously on some 
unlooked for fact (such as the "red monkey" connections Lee brought up 
earlier --it was Lee right?).

So people who get irritated should remember that its only literature we 
are discussing here.

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