(urth) Pike's ghost

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/29/2011 12:46 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> 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.

Well, I'm glad that's clear. I'll assume you're thinking of Gerry....