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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=ryan@liftingfaces.com href="mailto:ryan@liftingfaces.com">Ryan Dunn</A>
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<DIV>> In my own defense, I vehemently represent my assertations as my own
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<DIV>> viewing of the text. It does nothing to judge or argue for or against
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<DIV>> someone else's. It does, however, acknowledge that others indeed do
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<DIV>> take a different "world view" of the book and how it is read.</DIV>
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<DIV>Some views contradict other views.</DIV>
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<DIV>> I am curious -- instead of people just rejecting a certain line of
thought </DIV>
<DIV>> and then belittling that stance (not you in particular) -- what you,
Gerry, </DIV>
<DIV>> might make of the presence of monkeys throughout the BotNS; </DIV>
<DIV>> not just monkey men in caves or apes in the canopy, </DIV>
<DIV>> but of the several blatant descriptions of characters and objects as
monkey-like</DIV>
<DIV>> throughout BotNS, which includes, amongst others, Father
Inire.</DIV>
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<DIV>> Latro, for instance, has no monkey-like descriptions of humans, if I
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<DIV>> remember correctly. I find it hard to believe that they are just
coincidences </DIV>
<DIV>> for how Wolfe chose to describe a character.</DIV>
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<DIV>Maybe it's because BotNS is set in an equatorial region, with jungles,
whereas SoA is set in Europe, where there aren't any monkeys?</DIV>
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<DIV>Are you saying all these monkeys and apes are connected? Because many
of them seem quite distinct.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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