<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gerry Quinn <gerry@bindweed.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:59 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Lake of Birds<br> </font> </div> <br>
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<div style=""><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="dstockhoff@verizon.net" ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">David Stockhoff</a> </div></div></div>
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Two things. First, let's remember that Google wasn't around when BNS was
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and while I'm sure Wolfe didn't deliberately write for <br></div>
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and graduate students, he did intend his connections to be <br></div>
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If one guesses a connection on the basis of a few links, one <br></div>
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at least be rewarded with finding a couple more new ones.</div></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; display: inline; font-family: 'Calibri'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Yes,
but that award should not be a significant plot point. More resemblances
to the original Lake Avernus are fine, but one should stop short of drawing
conclusions about the characters.<br><br>---My point was that important connections should be multiple. Here is a multiple connection. Conclusions drawn.<br></div>
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IMHO for the most part he prefers his allusions to be <br></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; display: inline; font-family: 'Calibri'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">concrete---not
merely wordplay. That detail of the pipe, while small, is <br></div>
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And as Bruno points out, connecting a lake to the sea has <br></div>
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plot implications in BNS.</div></div>
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it were a canal like the original, it might have more.<br><br>---And would it help if they sold gelato from little carts there in the summer?<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>