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[Gerry Quinn]

From: Lee Berman 


> Gerry Quinn: 
> > What does a purported correspondence between Dorcas and the 
> >Sleeping Beauty tell us, or add to the story?  Dorcas was under no enchantment, 
> >Severian did not set out to find her, there was no wall of briars..All I’m saying 
> >is that if you want to make a viable case for fairy tales, you need to do more than 
> >say there is a girl in the story who was dead, which is a bit like being under an 
> >enchanted sleep, and she looked okay, and therefore it’s about the Sleeping Beauty.

> Gerry you are inventing straw men to knock down again.  Nobody has said Doras is "about" 
> Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty. The suggestion was simply and broadly that BotNS has 
> included elements of fairy tales and S & S stories in it. No "briars" are needed to
> make that assertion. 

But Valeria and Typhon have elements of Sleeping Beauty too, if you want to define ‘elements’ so loosely.  This is a point I feel the need to make repeatedly:  if someone’s criteria for rejecting hypotheses are so flaccid as to be non-existent, that person’s hypotheses will be worth nothing.   

- Gerry Quinn



 
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