(urth) Like a good Neighbor
Sergei SOLOVIEV
soloviev at irit.fr
Sun Nov 20 11:59:40 PST 2011
I agree with this - but as we see, my interpretation of concrete text is
different
of yours (we agreed to disagree). I think that open questions sometimes are
more important that the answers suggested in haste - and so many theories
come to suggest just that - answers, without meditation on the questions.
Sergei
Marc Aramini wrote:
> What gets me is the points where the narrators ponder if they
> understand what they are saying: "I had to think about what I myself
> had just said ... it is possible no one understands" that leads me to
> believe they mysteries are soluble, not just open ended mysteries. "
> I have given only scattered hints in spite of all my efforts"
>
> Those are metatextual statements that the structure is indicated
> through those scattered hints. "not my words, not my words"
>
> --- On *Sun, 11/20/11, Gerry Quinn /<gerry at bindweed.com>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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> Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 11:39 AM
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> *From:* Marc Aramini
> <http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=marcaramini@yahoo.com>
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> ****************
> > Uhh ... the chapter is titled "the end" and it says "the best
> part of my life was oveer.
>
> > The pit was its grave". In addition, doesn't she say he was
> dead? come on man
> > there are at least some disturbing deathly images.
>
> That’s why I qualified “indicates” with “strongly”.
>
> As for the first, he says the best part of his life was over,
> indicating that a worse part was to come. And indeed, he spent
> days lying semi-conscious, thirsting and abandoned in a pit, then
> betrayed his family to the inhumi to get out, then not too long
> after got kidnapped to a hell planet and killed. So it sounds
> like a fair assessment.
>
> Seawrack thought he was dead, but she, while she may have been
> born human, knows nothing of humans (*except* perhaps ones that
> are lured by sirens and are quickly killed).
>
> So yes, some deathly images. But no reason to think he actually
> died then, IMO.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
>
> --- On *Sun, 11/20/11, Gerry Quinn /<gerry at bindweed.com>/* wrote:
>
> Horn didn’t die in the pit. There’s nothing that strongly
> indicates that he did and a million things that make it
> obvious that he didn’t.
>
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