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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=marcaramini@yahoo.com
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<TD vAlign=top>--- On <B>Fri, 10/21/11, Gerry Quinn
<I><gerry@bindweed.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>What exactly are the things we need to
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The bumps in the night with the staff, the trees that eat trees, why the
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vanished people react hostilely to people cutting down wood, how the
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narrator can astral travel with no ihumi present but with his staff, why
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he aways feels watched around the forest or when Babbie is pushing a
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log, why Babbie gets defensive around horn's sons when they are </DIV>
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threatened and says huh huh huh, why the narrator seems to show up in
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an ancient story (not just the surface explanation), why the staff has a
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face, why the islands are made up of giant herbs and this scares the</DIV>
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narrator, why the tone changes between OBW and IGJ, why the vanished
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person is shown on a tree at the end of RTTW when the man looks
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through the ring. the tree in Long Sun quetzal calls a parent tree
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is his shelter and comfort. the myth of man climbing up the tree
but</DIV>
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not coming down yet in Long Sun.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Can’t
we just say the Neighbours (and the Inhumi for that matter) *like* trees,
without them having to actually *be* trees? They both come from
heavily forested planets, after all. Lianas can certainly be a
metaphor for inhumi. I don’t think they are inhumi. Jugano
tells us that baby inhumi swim in the water. </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If
Wolfe wanted them to be trees, wouldn’t he have had some farmer on Blue
talk about how the animals there seem to turn into plants, or
whatever? Why would he hide such a key fact of Blue (and Green)
biology?</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">As
for Short Sun, I’ll need another read before I am very confident of my
interpretations, and I suspect it is the most difficult part of the Solar
Cycle to interpret anyway. That mysterious psi abilities on the part
of the Neighbours, the Inhumi and others play a role, I am certain.
But identifying the plants with the animals seems to me a leap too
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But none of that stuff is important to the text in a straight, non
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reading, Gerry, so, once again, let's agree to disagree. I just know
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when I write my unpublished dereliction of art stories, sometimes
things</DIV>
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are implied like that and they are not explicitly stated, and let's be
honest</DIV>
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if it is a misprision it was directly inspired by my interpretation of
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style. Wolfe implies a lot. he even says the vegetable matter
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that Pas would have a better plan for it.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You
see, for me that’s just the way that somebody brought up in the Whorl
would naturally think. Just as Silk’s dreams, though they reveal
certain things, are also the dreams Silk might dream.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I
don’t think you allow enough for character and metaphor in Wolfe; it seems
to me that you sometimes interpret things which are intended to be part of
that sphere as statements of fact about the world (which even can
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Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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