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On 8/16/2010 2:18 PM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:
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<pre wrap="">If nothing that I, or Wolfe, or anyone else <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>can<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> say can change your mind,
well, that speaks for itself. There is nothing left to say.
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Wolfe has said it already in the text in many various ways. So,
properly, you should say "anything *more* Wolfe can say". <br>
<br>
As for you, Roy, the majority of the most important proofs that
Incus is female are philosophically beyond your willingness to look
at, let alone dispute. So there ya are. <br>
<br>
Anyone else? If someone were prepared to discuss the mythology of
Aristaeus as detailed by Pindar, Herodotus' History of the Persian
War, Plutarch's Lives, and Robert Graves' "The Greek Myths" (all
important references for Wolfe at least through the 80s and 90s)
then I suppose we could have a starting place to dispute. Then we
could move on to Hesphaestus, Apollo, and Orion and the other
things.<br>
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But if it's just a matter of going round and round on the subject of
whether it means anything that Incus underlined "a woman" and
"myself" in the letter to Fulmar (as you and I surely would do), or
whether all the associations between the word "hymen" and Incus's
name is mere nephelomancy, well, what's the point? _I'm right on
this issue. You are wrong._ You just don't have the background in
certain specific items of literature to see that you are wrong. And
it makes you spit nails if anyone says that a lack of anything
besides the text itself would make one of Wolfe's puzzles unsolvable
beyond any doubt. <br>
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If I tell you "This artwork of splotches contains a picture of
Jesus" and your only answer is "I don't see it and it's not there" ,
then where are we going to go from that? I'd rather discuss
something productively. How about the fact that Pike's Ghost is the
Rajan in dream-travel what that would mean about the old patera's
true heritage? Or that Rose's hands belonged to Molybdenum. I'm
prepared to argue about that without reference to anything but the
text.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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