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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></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> I think most authors CAN be read meaningfully on the surface
level, </DIV>
<DIV>> even supposedly highbrow ones like Tolstoy et al, but Wolfe is THE
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<DIV>> most obscure, clever, tricky, cryptic fellow - the stories don't make
a</DIV>
<DIV>> s much sense until you start to do the analysis, it's just clear he
likes</DIV>
<DIV>> to be tricksy. (for example, making green and blue colored
green</DIV>
<DIV>> and blue like urth and lune, you know he wants people to TRY to
map </DIV>
<DIV>> the planets to them, and FAIL.)</DIV>
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<DIV>I don’t think such a mapping is intended to be suggested at all. For
a start, Lune is a satellite of Urth, not a full-sized planet. </DIV>
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<DIV>The stories may make more sense if you read them and don’t try to
superimpose impossibilities.</DIV>
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<DIV>Far, far too much is made of Wolfe’s supposed ambiguity and
obscurity. If Wolfe gave you a shopping list that said bacon and potatoes
and cabbage, you’d ponder it for half a day and return from the shops with a bar
of soap, a cat, and a left-handed can-opener!</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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