(urth) vanished people=Hieros

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Mon, 11/7/11, Nick Lee <starwaterstrain at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Nick Lee <starwaterstrain at gmail.com>
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
To: "urth" <urth at urth.net>
Date: Monday, November 7, 2011, 2:15 PM



To a chain of random associations, apparently.Maybe.You remind me of those fundamentalists who read their sacred text, arrive at one interpretation of it, and then call other interpretations heretical.To be fair, I've shared many of your frustrations with Wolfe interpretation. I've thrown my copies of Borski's books across the room many times. I still think Marc's ideas about Blue and Green are unpersuasive.At some point I decided that I did not know what Wolfe's stories meant. I decided it was all right to entertain notions that might seem far fetched to see if anything substantive could be made of them.You seem confident that you do know what Wolfe's stories mean. If that is the case, I don't know why you bother with this list.If my idea about the green man does not pan out, then so be it. All I will have lost is time, but I will have spent it reading material I enjoy and exercising my thought processes. That's all literary interpretation is about,
 anyway. It's not empirical.You'd probably hate the paper I wrote about Pandora by Holly Hollander. I made some pretty outlandish "random connections" in that one. It was still fun, though.
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speaking of holly hollander, I'm not convinced the real cuplrit was ever caught (holly herself? I don't know).  Anyway, there was one point I had this idea to check all the underlined words from something in the text, but the formatting of the book made, in my opinion, italicized script merge with that which was supposed to be underlined, making the task impossible or inconclusive.  Trying to remember why that happened, something holly said in the book.
 
I would be interested in reading your paper, I've always intended to re-read Pandora with a criticial eye but never had the time.
 
And I'm not persuasive because Gene made this one really and truly impossible to prove.  It's like a sick feeling of familiarity but for sure the ancient city of the inhumi seems to map pretty well to Nessus.
 
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