(urth) Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?

[António Pedro Marques]

David Stockhoff wrote (16-12-2011 01:42):
> The absence of "mirroring," i.e., a direct and literal correspondence,
> doesn't indicate a lack of a relation. It merely signifies an absence of
> identity. Wolfe's fictions are not fairy tales as we know them. Did anyone
> think they were?

The discussion was about what it looked like on the _surface_. If you only 
find out at the end of the story that a character seems to fit a fairy tale, 
then the fairytaleness isn't really part of the scenery, is it?

As to what the work really is, surface plus the rest, I think all will agree 
it is many things.