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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">David Stockhoff</A> </DIV>
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12/18/2011 3:04 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR>> *From:* David Stockhoff
<mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net><BR>> On 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.<BR></DIV></DIV>
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> Then trying to make a correspondence between him and the witch in the
<BR>> > story (either story) is ridiculous.<BR><BR>> Ah, I see. You did
not know witches come in both black and white.</DIV></DIV>
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Sleeping Beauty nor Snow White was raised by a witch (at best, a good fairy
ameliorated the spell on Sleeping Beauty). And white witches don’t wear
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<DIV><BR>> > There’s a difference between figurative language and
un-thought-out <BR>> > nonsense. I’m sorry if it discomfits you that I can
distinguish <BR>> > between them.<BR><BR>> Literature must all look
like nonsense to you, no matter how well <BR>> "thought out." No, it saddens
me that you are unable to understand the <BR>> books you spend so much time
trying to reduce to codes and formulas. But <BR>> it saddens me more that you
are bent on preventing others from having a <BR>> conversation unbound by
those codes and formulas.</DIV>
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<DIV>Literature doesn’t look like nonsense to me. This argument of yours,
however, is plainly nonsense. Requiring that an argument make sense is not
an excessive demand, even if you find it restrictive.<BR><BR><BR>> >From now
on, all your posts will be deleted from <BR>> my mailbox before I see
them.</DIV>
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<DIV><Shrug> If you actually cared whether your arguments made sense, you
would read challenges to them even if you chose not to respond. I guess
that pretty much shows us what your concept of literary analysis amounts to in
the end.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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