<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><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"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Marc Aramini <marcaramini@yahoo.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> Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:07 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) fifth head owlet- wolf‏<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
<br><br><br><br>On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Lee Berman <<a ymailto="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com" href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>> <br>> <br><br>I never bought into the death of the author when that author was a unique genius of subtlety. I just maintain Wolfe loves puzzles and will always be an engineer. He follows patterns as well- identity and personal motive occluding objective narration, with enough hints about the subjectivity (usually) to achieve an objective situation.<br><br><br><br><br>Agreed.<br><br>However, I want to repeat Gerry's point about internal consistency. When we interpret a work as containing 1+ practically independent stories with only a few solid points of contact with the "obvious" story (no matter how many "soft" points there may be when the work is held up to the light at a certain angle), internal consistency is just about all you have. Even when there are
preexisting narratives (along the lines of Odysseus the a basis for Ulysses), internal consistency is needed. Not just dogged uniformity, or else Aunt Polly would indeed be a robot---because everyone would be a robot.<br><br>Here, I'd like to see some clarification of trees vs maggots, keeping in mind that we don't have word for "dendrilarvae," just as we don't have a word for "parasitic herpevines."<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>