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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=severiansola@hotmail.com
href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">Lee Berman</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>> Gerry Quinn: </DIV>
<DIV>> > What does a purported correspondence between Dorcas and the
<BR>> >Sleeping Beauty tell us, or add to the story? Dorcas was
under no enchantment, <BR>> >Severian did not set out to find her, there
was no wall of briars..All I’m saying <BR>> >is that if you want to make a
viable case for fairy tales, you need to do more than <BR>> >say there is
a girl in the story who was dead, which is a bit like being under an <BR>>
>enchanted sleep, and she looked okay, and therefore it’s about the Sleeping
Beauty.<BR><BR>> Gerry you are inventing straw men to knock down again.
Nobody has said Doras is "about" <BR>> Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty. The
suggestion was simply and broadly that BotNS has <BR>> included elements of
fairy tales and S & S stories in it. No "briars" are needed to<BR>> make
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<DIV>But Valeria and Typhon have elements of Sleeping Beauty too, if you want to
define ‘elements’ so loosely. This is a point I feel the need to make
repeatedly: if someone’s criteria for rejecting hypotheses are so flaccid
as to be non-existent, that person’s hypotheses will be worth
nothing. <BR></DIV>
<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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