(urth) Pike's ghost

[António Pedro Marques]

David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2011 17:40):
> 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?

Precisely, so that those who don't understand why I can't stand it may get 
an idea.

The problem with it is not so much the isolated instance. It's that it can 
go on forever, and the perspective of it going on forever is disheartening.