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<DIV>In a message dated 9/13/2007 9:08:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
matthewalangroves@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>But the
story is definitely (but not only) a horror story. Reminds me<BR>of Poe
a little.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>Yes ... but it's a horror story *from the point of view of the
narrator*. I'm not sure his point of view is correct. His point of
view isn't, for instance, the point of view of the "slow children" who are
playing. Is it possible that we are to see them as correct in their
child-likeness and the scholar Gene to be incorrect in his "adult"-ness, so that
what strikes them as play strikes him as horror and so that the griffin appears
gracious to them, giving what they don't deserve, but that, in spite of his
graciousness, his appearance terrifies Gene?</DIV>
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<DIV>Why is Gene so afraid of griffins that he covers the name Griffith because
it's too close to "griffin"? </DIV>
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