<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 11/7/11, Nick Lee <I><starwaterstrain@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Nick Lee <starwaterstrain@gmail.com><BR>Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros<BR>To: "urth" <urth@urth.net><BR>Date: Monday, November 7, 2011, 2:15 PM<BR><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=yiv525001769gmail_quote><FONT class=yiv525001769Apple-style-span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To a chain of random associations, apparently.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"><FONT class=yiv525001769Apple-style-span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Maybe.</FONT></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"><FONT class=yiv525001769Apple-style-span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You remind me of those fundamentalists who read their sacred text, arrive at one interpretation of it, and then call other interpretations heretical.</FONT></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=yiv525001769Apple-style-span>To be fair, I've shared many of your frustrations
with Wolfe interpretation. I've thrown my copies of Borski's books across the room many times. I still think Marc's ideas about Blue and Green are unpersuasive.</SPAN></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=yiv525001769Apple-style-span>At some point I decided that I did not know what Wolfe's stories meant. I decided it was all right to entertain notions that might seem far fetched to see if anything substantive could be made of them.</SPAN></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"><FONT class=yiv525001769Apple-style-span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You seem confident that you do know what Wolfe's stories mean. If that is the case, I don't know why you bother with this list.</FONT></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"
class=yiv525001769Apple-style-span>If my idea about the green man does not pan out, then so be it. All I will have lost is time, but I will have spent it reading material I enjoy and exercising my thought processes. That's all literary interpretation is about, anyway. It's not empirical.</SPAN></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=yiv525001769Apple-style-span>You'd probably hate the paper I wrote about <I>Pandora by Holly Hollander</I>. I made some pretty outlandish "random connections" in that one. It was still fun, though.</SPAN></PRE></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>speaking of holly hollander, I'm not convinced the real cuplrit was ever caught (holly herself? I don't know). Anyway, there was one point I had this idea to check all the underlined words from something in the text, but the formatting of the book made, in my opinion, italicized script merge with that which was supposed to be underlined, making the task impossible or inconclusive. Trying to remember why that happened, something holly said in the book.</DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>I would be interested in reading your paper, I've always intended to re-read Pandora with a criticial eye but never had the time.</DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>And I'm not persuasive because Gene made this one really and truly impossible to prove. It's like a sick feeling of familiarity but for sure the ancient city of the inhumi seems to map pretty well to Nessus.</DIV>
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