(urth) Inhumi eyes and names

[Daniel Petersen]

That was meant to read:  'so it still seems superfluous to me...'

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Daniel Petersen <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, any 'real' magic (i.e. occult sorcery or what have you) wouldn't be
> 'just magic' anyway, it seems superfluous to me that you point this out.
>  I'm not in any way denying causality (that's just silly).  I'm saying it
> should all be 'linked to cause and effect' (as you say) *very broadly
> conceived* - which I also think you're saying when you limn that causal
> sphere as ranging from the Conciliator's blood to the white fountain.
>
> -DOJP
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --- On *Fri, 9/28/12, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>*wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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: http://www.urth.net
>>
>>
>>
>> I was pointing out that in addition to symbolic levels there are usually
>> obscured MECHANISTIC ones (hot gas making a tent rise, in that case) that
>> are also at work in New Sun.  The puzzle was whether the miracles of the
>> claw where cellular rearrangements or simply a pocket time dilation device
>> (fueled not by the claw but by the resonance between the Conciliator's
>> blood and the white fountain and existing across many times).  There are
>> mechanistic explanations in Wolfe, it's not just "magic".  Though it may at
>> times be apotropaic and dualistic in nature, it can often be linked to
>> cause and effect.
>>
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