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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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may seem a minor nit, but the Mucor who stands over Silk is described as
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</DIV></DIV>It's certainly worth bringing up, but it is hardly a deal
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<DIV>I agree.<BR><BR>
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if] the Rajan can travel in time, it’s surely a stretch that he can grab people
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does anyone get back during astral travel? They wake up.</DIV></DIV>
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> ag</DIV></DIV>ain, an argument of a kind you dislike: but if Wolfe wanted
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> write in these super-hidden explanations and leave subtle clues, </DIV>
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> he had a great opportunity to indicate that the Mucor Silk sees </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> Yeah. I really really hate this kind of argument. It's worse than
lazy. It's an </DIV>
<DIV>> argument someone would only reasonably make if they had never read a
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<DIV>> Wolfe novel. </DIV>
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<DIV>That statement is truly absurd, as I am making it, having read many.
And I consider it a strong argument, because I respect Wolfe’s talents as a
writer to much to believe he would make such elementary blunders (Mucor isn’t
really a problem as it’s just one incident, but I think the gravity thing is a
good example of something that can be totally ruled out by this argument.)</DIV>
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<DIV>> When you can point to the clear, textual explanation of what</DIV>
<DIV>> is happening with the Horn-Babbie confabulation, or how the
Rajan gains </DIV>
<DIV>> the power of dream-travel, or how the Rajan ended up in the
grandmother's </DIV>
<DIV>> tale, or who is the barnacled man Horn encounters, or the nature of
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<DIV>> Seawrack, or what the shattered glass structure is that Horn and
Seawrack </DIV>
<DIV>> encountered on the island, or why Silk decided that he and Sand
were </DIV>
<DIV>> "brothers" in some sense based on the vague similarity of their
names...</DIV>
<DIV>> then you will certainly have cause to argue "Well, if that's what
Wolfe</DIV>
<DIV>> intended, then why didn't he just *say* so?"</DIV>
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<DIV>This is a completely different situation. In your examples we have
Wolfe putting in obvious anomalies that need clearing up. In the examples
I’m talking about, the anomalies are absent where, if a (generally unlikely)
theory were valid, they would be expected to be present.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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