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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
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12/16/2011 3:31 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR>> *From:* David Stockhoff <A
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accused me of illiteracy twice recently, if I recall correct. <BR></DIV>
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On both occasions, you were attempting to make far-fetched <BR></DIV>
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correspondences between fairy lore and elements of the Solar Cycle <BR></DIV>
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(which in fact uses fairy lore less than most Wolfe). When I refused <BR></DIV>
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to discuss the Neighbours as if they were literally fairies (because <BR></DIV>
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from them in numerous ways), you accused me of illiteracy.<BR></DIV>
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And today, you claimed that the House Absolute is a fairy palace, and <BR></DIV>
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accused me of illiteracy when I demurred.<BR></DIV>
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On neither occasion were you able to elaborate your contentions into <BR></DIV>
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anything meaningful. Hence, I suppose, the descent into insults.<BR><BR></DIV>
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I was simply pointing out that you seem to know nothing about <BR></DIV>
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being unable to recognize it when it appears, but feel free to <BR></DIV>
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as though you do, and yet also to abuse anyone who brings it up <BR></DIV>
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discussing Wolfe. </DIV></DIV>
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have never abused anyone for bringing it up (it must require a hard neck for you
to accuse me of abuse in this thread). What I have done is asked you to be
specific with regard to what you are arguing. In the case of the
Neighbours, for example, in the context of what a Neighbour whose consciousness
had entered that of a man would notice as odd, you demanded that I answer in
terms not of Neighbour characteristics, but in terms of fairy lore. The
absurdity of this can be pointed up by considering the question of whether he
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how about his underground life? Because *today*, of course, it seems that
fairies live underground, in accordance with your ill-thought out argument du
jour. Do the Neighbours live underground? If not, where does that
leave your argument on that occasion? Wingless and buried, it would
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accusation of illiteracy is a transparent device to divert the discussion from
the works of Gene Wolfe, into some nebulous body of extra-textual material which
need never be defined.</DIV></DIV>
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