(urth) barrington interview

António Marques entonio at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 04:30:21 PDT 2014


At the end of the day there must be more to a Correct Reading than that the
author saying that's how he thought it out, which is an external factoid.

On 6 October 2014 12:18, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >Jeffrey Wilson:  This does not make it sound any less reasonable to me.
>
> >There is no particular need for all the puzzles to be of the same
> difficulty or the
> >answers to have the same verifiability. Some of the easiest puzzles may
> >have the hardest to verify answers if the hardest puzzles are built on
> >them.
>
>
> For me this is a dodging of the essential question here. Which is:
>
>
> Who is right?
>
>
> In another interview, Wolfe said something about all the crazy theorists
> of his
>
> work but that there were some readers who basically understood all his
> work.
>
>
> There are thousands of Wolfe readers who have spent much time and thought
>
> trying to understand his work. Which are the ones who have the correct
> understanding?
>
> Who are the ones who are way off base?
>
>
> Without an authoritative identification of who is getting things right and
> wrong, we are
>
> each given an open invitation to assume that one of the readers who does
> get Wolfe
>
> correctly is, of course, ourselves.
>
>
> If Borksi were still posting on this board I'm sure he'd be able provide
> multiple reasons for
>
> why he is right and Marc is wrong. If there is truly to be some sort of
> assessment of correct
>
>  interpretation, there needs to be auctorial authority or at least a  firm
> majority consensus to
>
> base it on. On most of the issues which are discussed here, I don't see
> either.
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