(urth) Pike's ghost

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Tue Nov 29 09:40:37 PST 2011


On 11/29/2011 12:35 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> James Wynn wrote (29-11-2011 17:12):
>>
>>>
>>>>>> Why do you believe enlightenment came to Patera Silk in the ball 
>>>>>> court?
>>>>
>>>>> Because the text says so.
>>>>
>>>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>>>> Which means that Horn and Nettle say so. To what extent may we rely
>>>> upon their interpretation of this event?
>>>
>>> António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>> And to what extent may we rely on their assertion that they wrote LS?
>>> And to what extent may we rely on their actual existence?
>>> Come to think of it, it may well be the case that all those stories are
>>> the product of someone's imagination.
>>
>> Antonio, what do you suppose the point was in having Horn and Nettle 
>> write
>> the story as opposed to an omniscient third-person narrator?
>
> What do you base your theory that it was Horn and Nettle on? There's 
> no real reason to believe it. It may have been Marrow's slave.

Aren't you now doing what you just told us you can't stand?



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