<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Good! I was going to ask ...<div><br></div><div>I like the comparison of Horn to John Carter of Mars. But I only read the first book long ago and have forgotten it. Is there any direction the connection gives us?</div><div><br></div><div>Certainly Wolfe must have been in a Burroughs kind of mood for a while there, given all the six-legged creatures. Speaking of which, there is a movie version of John Carter of Mars due out in 2012.</div><div><br></div><div>And going on another tangent, I always think of the inhumi as a metaphor for what happens when a writer falls under the influence of another writer: if you read a lot of Melville while you are writing, don't be surprised if it ends up retaining some of the character of Melville.</div><div><br></div><div>And Wolfe himself enjoys imitation; he did a great Dunsany pastiche once. He is very
conscious, if not self-conscious, of the process of literary digestion and re-creation. It's more than just reference---it's re-working.<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 9/29/10, James Wynn <i><crushtv@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: James Wynn <crushtv@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Spring Wind<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 3:38 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>> James Wynn-<br>> I think we can safely say that the parts that are in the original myths/stories are absolutely historical.<br>Should be...<br>"I think we can safely say that the parts that are NOT in the original myths/stories are absolutely historical."<br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net"
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