(urth) Inhumi eyes and names

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Fri Sep 28 12:30:44 PDT 2012


That is a helpful clarification, thanks. We all thought you had gone 
wobbly on us.

Strike the scaffold, boys!

On 9/28/2012 3:21 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> For the most part, I think there are still mechanistic or symbolic 
> explanations for stuff like this, and sometimes objective "proof"
> ...
> Wolfe has reasons for weird details ... and his whole spiel on the 
> Pelerine's tent making a castle in the sky really drives that home: 
> the symbolic meaning was clear, but the mechanistic one was STILL 
> there somehow.
>
> Yeah, admitting that the 'genre' or 'mode' is some kind of 'fantasy' 
> in no way mitigates against any symbolism.  I'm wondering what I said 
> that made that worth pointing out?  All I'm saying is that the 
> 'mechanism', in the Solar Cycle, does *not* have to be in terms of 
> 'scientific' naturalism.  There are surely 'occult', or 
> 'preternatural' forces at work in this series, in addition to and in 
> conjunction with mega-futuristic super-science.
>
> -DOJP
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
> For the most part, I think there are still mechanistic or symbolic 
> explanations for stuff like this, and sometimes objective "proof"
> ...
> Wolfe has reasons for weird details ... and his whole spiel on the 
> Pelerine's tent making a castle in the sky really drives that home: 
> the symbolic meaning was clear, but the mechanistic one was STILL 
> there somehow.
>
>
>
>
>     --- On *Fri, 9/28/12, Daniel Petersen
>     /<danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com
>     <mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>>/* wrote:
>
>
>         From: Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com
>         <mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>>
>         Subject: Re: (urth) Inhumi eyes and names
>         To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net
>         <mailto:urth at lists.urth.net>>
>         Date: Friday, September 28, 2012, 11:01 AM
>
>         António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com
>         <http://us.mc1607.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=entonio@gmail.com>> wrote:
>         Vision:
>         - I think this is one case where Wolfe just chose to go with a
>         cool idea, not worrying very much whether it can be
>         scientifically explained or not.
>
>         We do all realise this is a lot of what's going on Wolfe,
>         right?  And if we need 'explanation' in the Solar Cycle,
>         surely it's that the whole work is to some degree a form of
>         'magical realism' or the like, right?  It really is 'science
>         fantasy' to one degree or another, in one sense or another.
>
>     For the most part, I think there are still mechanistic or symbolic
>     explanations for stuff like this, and sometimes objective "proof"
>     (For example, such as the external objective proofs to aid
>     interpretation in the short story the changeling involving the
>     actor Peter Palmer who played the oaf lil' abner - born in 1931 as
>     our narrator Peter Palmer should have been instead of the 1934
>     birthdate his account posited, making him too young to enter the
>     war legally - and the fact that the origin of the word oaf lies in
>     a bad exchange - such that he was swapped back in 1931 and his
>     subsequent encounter with his changeling warped his memories).
>     Wolfe has reasons for weird details ... and his whole spiel on the
>     Pelerine's tent making a castle in the sky really drives that
>     home: the symbolic meaning was clear, but the mechanistic one was
>     STILL there somehow.
>
>
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