(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/21/2011 3:24 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
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> --- On Mon, 11/21/11, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
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>> It seems to me that what you do is find the easiest path to
>> the lowest place and amaze yourself at how easy it is to
>> defend it. You are Wolfe's ideal foolish reader---you fall
>> for every single one of his plausible surface explanations,
>> which are ALWAYS provided. It's as though he makes a place
>> where one can stand and see nothing going on in all
>> directions; you seek that place and on finding it feel you
>> have done real work getting there.
>>
>> Remarkably, all one really needs to do to achieve this
>> state is to never, ever have read another book of
>> literature. Literature has only camels to offer anyway.
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> heh heh heh. they are fun on a second reading to see through, but those plausible surface explanations get old when you are trying to delineate a very simple point.  "Babbie is asking for a weapon there cuz Hoof sayz so."  ARGH

To be fair, some are quite sneaky. You read through, seeing through a 
few, then come to a passage that makes you uncomfortable, but you HAVE 
to accept it and go on. It's like a default low-energy state. You can 
only process so much in one reading. I knew Babbie was Horn on first 
read, but I couldn't say how or why so I had to put it away.

Only on second reading, when you confirm your readings, you can look at 
them again.