(urth) Sigh.

[Jordon Flato]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Returning to the Moby Dick analogy, one is reasonable in suggesting
> that "Moby Dick is God" provided one does not mean "Moby Dick, the
> whale in the story, created the world in which the story takes place."
> The ways in which Moby Dick can be God are much more interesting than
> that. Likewise, the ways in which Urth can be Green are much more
> interesting than the merely physical way in which it clearly can't.


This is it for me.  The interest in the resonance between Urth/Green and
Ushas/Blue (my preference there) is pretty much flattened if we are asked to
pretzel our understanding in order to make it literally true. The amount of
gymnastics required to make it work are, to me, astounding...and yet it adds
little to the thematic resonance which is already there, in existence, and
pretty clear (to me, to me, of course).  The equation doesn't balance.  If I
felt some really dramatic metaphoric or symbolic resonance was served by
having them be literally the same, I might be more inclined to go with it
where it leads.  At this point, it actually flattens that resonance for me,
and so I reject it.
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