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

[Marc Aramini]

The shadow children become the things they infect.  That's how one can be
shot, like the creatures Marsch shoots.
Before you mention that.
On Wednesday, August 6, 2014, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:

> It exists.  It's just that plant leaves aren't what you think they are-
> they have microorganisms on them that produce the effects of communion.
>  The same reason you ignore the death scene of victor, Gerry. It 's okay
> when you ignore narrative details for narrative reasons, like  Trenchard
> saying he was descended from the east wind. This is why I don't want to
> talk to you about this at great length- you will never be convinced because
> your misprision is cast in iron, and you are exasperated by what you
> perceive as mine.  And that's okay.
>
> On Wednesday, August 6, 2014, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gerry at bindweed.com');>> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05/08/2014 18:50, Tony Ellis wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, they [Shadow Children]  do crop up a few times in the third
>>> novella. As well as the various references to child-sized indigenous
>>> people, there is: "...and the Shadow Children of course came to steal by
>>> evening... there are never as many of them as they think, because some are
>>> only in the minds of others..." - VRT, interviewed by Marsch. and "The
>>> question is not, as I once thought, how much the thoughts of the Shadow
>>> Children influence reality, but how much our own do." - VRT's writings,
>>> sometime after incarceration.
>>>
>>
>> Fair enough.  The last one is interesting.  He immediately references the
>> original Marsche's interview with Mrs. Blount, in which she describes
>> playing with abos as a child, and her father shooting some.  I'm not sure
>> how that fits with his observation above.
>>
>> - Gerry Quinn
>>
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