On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:45 PM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Two theories on why they ended up on Urth during astral/dream travel:<br>
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I'm glad to see that Brunians is back.</blockquote><div><br>En garde!<br>- If, at one point, a character can write himself into a story, why can't it happen again? How far did Krait have to travel to do that?<br>
- Wolfe has already used the sorting order of books for a joke. In 5HoC he makes the Vernor Vinge/"W" joke. We almost never ascribe something to Wolfe's sense of humor, but certainly he must use it every once in a while.<br>
- The idea that astral travel uses mental maps rather than physical ones is a good one, at least as good as the "Silk = Blue" or "Blue is a time-traveling version of Green" theories that are going around.<br>
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