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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
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On 12/16/2011 5:16 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR><BR>> > > The Sidhe were
always associated with barrows. Other, more literary and<BR>> > >
Victorian fairies tend to disdain burial mounds and live in glens. Yet<BR>>
> > others are matronly women who live in cottages, while others dwell
in<BR>> > > shining towers. Perhaps this confuses you. It confused me
until I<BR>> > > realized that the literature of fairies, like that of
the gods, is<BR>> > > complex and contradictory and is derived from
many different sources <BR>> > > and has been put to many different
uses.</DIV></DIV>
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I wasn’t confused. Whatever my state of literacy, I was well aware that
faerie lore is nebulous and contradictory.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> > In which case demanding that I express my thoughts on what an
amnesiac <BR>> > Neighbour consciousness inserted into a human body might
sense as odd <BR>> > in terms of fairies, rather than what we know of the
Neighbours, is a <BR>> > bit stupid, isn’t it? Given that the sort of
fairies they were <BR>> > supposed to like was not ever defined. Yet you
even demanded <BR>> > references to literature about fairies.<BR><BR>>
I asked you to cite any evidence outside your own head.</DIV>
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<DIV>What *actually* happened is that I made a few suggestions about what such
an amnesiac Neighbour would see as odd: I suggested, for example, that
having only four limbs might seem strange to him. I mentioned an affinity
with trees. I based my suggestions on what we know about Neighbours, which
is admittedly slight.</DIV>
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<DIV>You then jumped down my throat and started babbling about Faerie and
demanding references. Let me quote a direct exchange from that thread (a
while after I had made my suggestions about what an amnesiac Neighbour in a
human body might feel):</DIV>
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<DIV>Me [trying to talk about Neighbours, and replying to your accusation that I
made up my suggestions about multiple limbs and affinity with trees out of my
head]</DIV>
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</FONT>You've been going on about Faerie. Everyone agrees they [Neighbours] like
trees <BR>> <FONT face="Times New Roman">> </FONT>(Mark thinks they ARE
trees). The Neighbours seem to live in an <BR>> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">> </FONT>adjacent dimension. They have eight limbs. Is
your question serious?<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">You:<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">>
</FONT>Where is the evidence that people who hang with fairies like trees, see
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">> </FONT>other dimensions, and feel like
limbs are missing? The page numbers <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">>
</FONT>don't need to be in BSS. I have read about Faerie from age 7 through
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">> </FONT>graduate school and these are not
familiar to me. Show
me.</FONT><BR>*************************************************************</DIV>
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<DIV>How do people expect me to respond to this kind of stuff? I’m fine
with the notion that Neighbours share some characteristics with fairies [they
share not specific characteristics so much, I think, as a certain kind of
mystery]. But what you say has no relation to Neighbours or what I was
saying or even to James’s original proposal, which was *nothing whatsoever* to
do with “people who hang with fairies”. What people are you even talking
about?</DIV>
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<DIV>It’s the same on this new thread. We start discussing swords and
sorcery and high fantasy in BotNS, genres to which most people agree it has
overt resonances. Lee said that it was magic swords and giants and
sleeping beauties that told him what kind of story BotNS is, presumably meaning
that it has elements of fairy stories. I pointed out that some of the
connections are tenuous and the logic of fairy tales is likely to be of limited
application in understanding BotNS. Then you jumped in and started talking
about Faeries (Faerie lore is *not* the same genre as fairy-tales, incidentally,
and even you admit that BotNs is thin on fairies anyway) and pretty soon you
were insulting me again when I didn’t agree with you.</DIV>
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<DIV>If something in the body of Faerie-related literature with which you are
familiar is relevant to BotNS, why not post it, rather than gibber
insults?</DIV>
<DIV><BR>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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