(urth) Pike's ghost

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Tue Nov 29 12:07:31 PST 2011



From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes 
> Gerry Quinn wrote:

> > If you can show an interpretation is wrong, you save others from being
> > misled by it.  Seems a good reason to point out the problem.

> What do you mean by "wrong" and "misled?" These seem to assume that
> there is a True Interpretation and all others are wrong, where I think
> that texts in general and Wolfe's texts in particular are polysemous
> and subject to a multitude of (apparently) contradictory
> interpretations, all based on the text.
It only assumes that some interpretations are wrong, and that some interpretations exist,  already discovered or not, that are better than the wrong ones.
- Gerry Quinn
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