(urth) weak theories

Son of Witz Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Thu Jan 6 13:08:35 PST 2011


On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
>> Marc Aramini: One tactic Borski employs frequently that I think is a huge wasted effort is the embedded names
> 
> Amen on that, my brother!
> 
> Generally I think Borski is a very smart, very literate guy with a great familiarity with Gene Wolfe. I think he 
> takes a number of wrong steps here and there, but devoting something like 50 pages of his book to the "Onomastics" 
> of how every name of every person and thing in BotNS is related to every other name was an intense race to oblivion.                           

+1
I started that chapter keenly, but got exaclty zero useful insight.


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