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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
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12/18/2011 10:51 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR><BR>> > Severian was certainly
not responsible for Dorcas’s death, so placing <BR>> > him as the witch
(or wicked fairy, in the canonical version of <BR>> > Sleeping Beauty) is
absurd.<BR><BR>> Christ, Gerry. He raised her from the dead. No one said he
was wicked.</DIV></DIV>
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trying to make a correspondence between him and the witch in the story (either
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> If you want to change every aspect of the story, and even what story
<BR>> > it is, what is the point of your argument? When you say “there is
no <BR>> > 1:1" relationship”, then, given the sort of relationships you
are <BR>> > apparently willing to propose, you are tacitly admitting that
there is <BR>> > no relationship at all. Because admitting the sort of
relationships <BR>> > you are proposing now would imply that every book
should be discussed <BR>> > as if it reconstituted the Library of
Babel.<BR><BR>> Please be specific, or no one will know what you
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is you who are failing to be specific. You don’t even know what fairy tale
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<DIV><BR>> > There is a vague resonance with Sleeping Beauty when a
beautiful woman <BR>> > is resurrected. Just as there is a vague
resemblance between Dr. Talos <BR>> > and a stuffed fox. Discussing the
stuff that you are suggesting is <BR>> > meaningful – for example the
“enchantment” you claimed Dorcas is under <BR>> > – is the equivalent of
discussing the horsehair Talos is stuffed with, <BR>> > and what colour
horse it came from.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>> Have you ever considered introducing the concept of figurative
language <BR>> to your programming? You are a marvel of AI engineering, but
your <BR>> insistence on tackling literature that your analytical routines
can't <BR>> handle betrays you. Or are you just trying to become human, like
Data on <BR>> Star Trek?</DIV>
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<DIV>There’s a difference between figurative language and un-thought-out
nonsense. I’m sorry if it discomfits you that I can distinguish between
them.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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