(urth) Pirate Freedom notes

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> From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:13 PM
>Subject: Re: (urth) Pirate Freedom notes
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>On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Jerry Friedman
><jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> The other clue that Chris is a clone (or has a genome created from
>> scratch or something) is that he never mentions his mother.  He doesn't
>> even say that he's especially tempted to go to New Jersey and see the
>> mother he never knew.
>>
>> However, I don't think this is proof.
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>Me neither. If it were a more normal character, this would be a good
>argument from silence since mothers are important to most people, who
>would be homesick either at the monastery for years and years and not
>even allowed home. But this is the ultra-oblivious Chris we're talking
>about. His silences mean essentially nothing because he's as thick as
>a brick.
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>As I read the book, I noticed the total absence of any mention of a mother and wondered whether the book were at least partly conceived as a response or in opposition to Peter Pan. Let's just say, Chris is no Wendy Darling.
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