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[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>>Gerry Quinn: Same old thing - a storytelling contest.  I consider the 
>>structure of 5HoC
>>infinitely more elegant.  Storytelling contests remind me of that Wolfe 
>>tic
>>"First explain how you know that I know that..." of which 5HoC is also 
>>mercifully free.
>
> Yeah, but was there a purpose for the contest? Just passing time or 
> winning some inconsequential
> thing? Well, doesn't matter. I generally agree with you on the elegance of 
> 5HoC. But what about
> the contrivance of reading the Brown Book? More elegant than a story 
> contest?

I think it was basically passing the time at dinner table.  Apparently it 
was traditional in the household.

I do prefer the Brown Book.

Wolfe has himself said that the stories in CotA are padding, to a degree.


- Gerry Quinn