(urth) FW: May 2014 Wolfe interview in _Technology Review_

[Gerry Quinn]

On 05/08/2014 18:12, Marc Aramini wrote:
> It also seems to me that brides involve a method of propagation and 
> reproduction, you know?  like the life cycle involves them somehow.  
> But like I said, I really don't want to argue too much about this 
> because our views on parallel symbolic associations in Fifth Head of 
> Cerberus are diametrically opposed.

Marc, all I can say is: re-read the full page or two before the 'brides' 
(actually 'wives') line.  It's ALL a detailed description of the 
drug-bearing plant and what it does for them and how they use it. The 
'wives' are introduced as an analogy for how it makes them feel.  You 
are blowing off two pages of detailed exegesis on the basis of a word or 
two, words which have natural interpretations in the drug scenario as 
explained.  And not just here.

Why does Wolfe - or, if you prefer, Victor - go on for pages about this 
plant if it doesn't exist?  It's not symbolic association, it's flat out 
SF info-dump!

- Gerry Quinn