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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=marcaramini@yahoo.com
href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">Marc Aramini</A> </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">> </FONT>From: Gerry Quinn <A
href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</A><BR> <BR>> >I
don’t get why you think it’s a moon at all, as distinct from a portal
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<DIV>> >out of Yesod. [Severian later ruminates on whether the White
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<DIV>> >may be a similar portal, or even the same one.]<BR> <BR>>
Gerry, I feel like we've inexplicably switched places! Doesn't sev say
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<DIV>> it's a moon in that quote (and isn't that your normal preferred method
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<DIV>> of definitive narrational statement)? but yes, clearly a portal
from yesod,</DIV>
<DIV>> too. the moon is a balloon.</DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>> > Somewhere behind or before us, above us<BR>> > or
below us, was a wide circle of light, spinning,<BR>> > frantically
spinning, a thing like Lune, if such a thing as<BR>> > a moon of the most
brilliant white can be imagined. Gunnie<BR>> > fluttered across it once or
twice before she was lost in the<BR>> > diamond-decked blackness. (And
once it seemed to me—and<BR>> > still seems when I call that frantic
memory forth—that I<BR>> > saw Apheta's face as she leaned from that
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<DIV>I don’t know where you get the idea about “my preferred method of
definitive narrational statement”. I’ve repeatedly pointed out that
Wolfe’s characters – just like real people - often use metaphor which should
*not* be taken literally. And here he starts with plain old simile, even
if he finishes up with metonymy or metalepsis or whatever. Same
difference. He’s not saying it’s a moon. </DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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