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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=crushtv@gmail.com
href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">James Wynn</A> </DIV>
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Okay.
Then, I am going to apply Gerry's literary criticism method to a hypothetical
book.<BR><BR>> This book makes references to "<SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>Lorina Liddell's sister" and "L</SPAN>odh Carol"<SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>. The main character (a blonde <FONT color=#000000
face=Calibri>> </FONT>BOY wearing a blue and white outfit) enters a cave
around which rabbits have created extensive <FONT color=#000000
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face=Calibri>> </FONT>warrens. On the other side, he meets a wagon maker
(</SPAN><SPAN class=foreign>latin, "carpentarius") </SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>who says he used to work <FONT color=#000000
face=Calibri>> </FONT>at Sea World where he trained a walrus to do tricks.
His nemeses are a pair of overweight twins <FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>>
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</FONT>named Deter and Dumball who are the leaders of opposing sides in a gang
war. One of them <FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri> </FONT><FONT
color=#000000>> </FONT>explains that their weight problems are due to a
congenital condition cause by a leptin condition</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span>. They explain that their parents named them for the two
closest towns to the house where they were >born. <BR><BR><FONT color=#000000
face=Calibri>> </FONT>Now using Gerry's method, it is ludicrous to think the
author is flashing references to the works of </SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>> </FONT>Lewis
Carroll. After all, the meaning of Deter and Dumball's names is clearly
explained and is not >literary at all. Their chubbiness is a result of a
specific plot element in their lives. Analyzing the plot >with reference to
Alice's adventures in Wonderland is a terrific waste of time.<BR><BR>>I think
this method is counter-productive.</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>For a book such as you
describe, it would be counterproductive – and I do not doubt that such books may
very well exist.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>There remains the
question, however, of whether Gene Wolfe writes books of this kind, and I do not
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class=Apple-style-span><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>- Gerry
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