I think this is what email is for. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:57 PM, David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">You're utterly lost, Josh.<br>
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Stockhoff, take stock.<br>
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Be a fucking weasel, see what happens.<br>
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It probably won't come from me.<br>
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Which passage?<br>
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Ah! You do in fact know what a scruple is.<br>
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I thought that you had gone stupid on me.<br>
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Why do you scruple to call the narrator Severian in that passage?<br>
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I don't answer a silly question just because it's asked in a manner<br>
that<br>
is relatively civil, compared to most of that person's questions.<br>
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Call it a scruple.<br>
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You don't know what a scruple is.<br>
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Else you would have answered my more or less civil question.<br>
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What character in the Book of the New Sun do you identify with and<br>
why?<br>
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I could lend you some scruples, but you'd waste them.<br>
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<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org" target="_blank">brunians@brunians.org</a> wrote:<br>
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Because I enjoy fucking with weasels.<br>
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What's your forfeit to be?<br>
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I didn't mention Severian at all or even TBotNS, so I can't scruple<br>
to<br>
do one or the other.<br>
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Why do you scruple to read people's posts?<br>
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<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org" target="_blank">brunians@brunians.org</a> wrote:<br>
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What is a scruple, Stockhoff?<br>
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I recall another passage in another work, where the narrator<br>
says<br>
he<br>
often thinks he doesn't drink enough water. I enjoy these<br>
mundane<br>
observations.<br>
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I did no such thing.<br>
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Still, you scruple to call the narrator Severian.<br>
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Why?<br>
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I recall another passage in another work, where the narrator<br>
says<br>
he<br>
often thinks he doesn't drink enough water. I enjoy these<br>
mundane<br>
observations.<br>
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Lee Berman wrote:<br>
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brunians- The only difference between Severian and you and I<br>
is<br>
that<br>
he<br>
has a<br>
different Author<br>
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I presume the Author of you and I is to be considered of an<br>
intelligence<br>
too vast,<br>
penetrating, universal, inhuman and mysterious to ever be<br>
comprehended<br>
by us.<br>
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How true is that of the intelligence of the author of<br>
Severian?<br>
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Gurloes is a tragic and interesting figure.<br>
He is father to Severian in a way that Palaemon is not.<br>
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I agree. There are places in Wolfe's work where I am sure he<br>
is<br>
referring to his<br>
own wife and children in addition to his fictional characters.<br>
The<br>
part<br>
where he<br>
describes Master Gurloes as being tragic, a complex man trying<br>
to<br>
appear<br>
simple,<br>
someone who eats too much and not often enough, seems to be<br>
one<br>
of<br>
those<br>
sort of<br>
places.<br>
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