(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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