(urth) the prime calcula/his citadel and other quotes

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Wed, 1/19/11, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
 
> Same here, though their suspicions aren't unwarranted.
> I just started reading the short stories. I spent a day
> racking my brain as to what was going on in Death of Dr.
> island and other stories, but it seems like it's pretty much
> straightforward formal experiment rather than an elaborate
> puzzle.
> ~witz


I disagree for the most part on this.  Some of them might be, but I feel like there is always some interpretive work that makes sense of it (for example, outside of Wolfe, one of Beckett's novels, I think it is the unnameable, the last one in his trilogy, I am sure is narrated by a penis that mytholigizes that it was once a human being.  It just makes sense of everything except the mode of narration itself ie - how could a penis tell me this story?)

Anyway, if by some miracle in some distant future you ever read a story by Marc Aramini, and something doesn't make sense, you are supposed to be able to figure it out puzzle style.  Just a heads up, and I consider myself a pale, probably unpublishable imitation of Wolfe, but my imitations have, in my mind, correct solutions, and I imagine most of Wolfe's do, too.