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<div>>I wouldn't over-think it.<br>
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<div>Can a mailing list have a motto?</div>
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heh heh<br>
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<div>Actually, thinking about these things is fun, as Lee
reminds us, but I'm also in favor of remembering the
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Eh...I suppose. I just think that this quote is like the picture of
the astronaut on the moon or the statue of Blind Justice. The reader
is supposed to recognize it and take pleasure in the recognition.
Once again, people find certain readings viscerally appealing aside
from what is detectable from the text. Personally, I don't get any
added enjoyment from the books by thinking of it them in another
universe. And if I did, I don't get any enjoyment in thinking that
Silk's vision of Jesus on the cross or the references to the Gospel
are some sort of analog. If his must be a different future than my
own, I'd prefer to believe that in Silk's Briah, the Gospels are
mythology (delivering a true message from another universe) and the
Outsider showed Silk the crucifixion from another universe
iteration. In short, I enjoyed recognizing the actual astronauts in
front of an actual American flag in tBotNS.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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