Great, thanks for that clarification. My evidential assessment of your position will have to await my re-read of Long Sun, but I now see the analytic validity of your view. It seems a fair enough line of reasoning.<br><br>
-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:56 PM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 10/26/2011 10:51 AM, Daniel Petersen wrote:<br>
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'There is simply no other reasonable explanation, given the context, for Pike's sparkly disapperating ghost'<br>
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Does 'reasonable' here = naturalistic? Are we not allowing for any 'real' (traditionally construed - i.e. spirits of the dead) ghosts in Wolfe's cycle? (Or is there something about the context you mention that requires a non-supernatural account in this particular case?)<br>
-DOJP<br>
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Not give the subsequent appearance of astral Oreb.<br>
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Otherwise, I'd accept the appearance as a Gothic-style ghost, although a weird one. When such ghosts appear they don't typically wave like a tourist at Disneyland. Nor disappear like James T. Kirk being beamed up.<br>
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J.<br>
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