<div dir="ltr">Also, the mineral Kluy flowers underground are a bit mysterious - decoration for Cutthroat's approach or actually useful for some purpose? They are only found on the wet street.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Gwern Branwen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gwern@gwern.net" target="_blank">gwern@gwern.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
An impressive overview as expected, but one point felt under-addressed.<br>
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On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Marc Aramini <<a href="mailto:marcaramini@gmail.com">marcaramini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> “A pivotal story for me is one in which I feel I have succeeded in doing<br>
>> well something I have never really done well before – fairy material in<br>
>> “Thag”, a certain religious viewpoint in “Westwind”, the use of second and<br>
>> third person in “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories”, the<br>
>> progression from realism to fantasy in “The Eyeflash Miracles”, even the<br>
>> primitive inventions no one ever actually invented (and which no one now<br>
>> notices) in “Tracking Song”. Just as “Tracking Song” is about uninvented<br>
>> inventions of the stone age, “Straw” is about (partly of course) uninvented<br>
>> inventions of the middle ages.<br>
<br>
</div>Wolfe seems to think that the 'uninvented inventions' are a major<br>
theme of the story, but you hardly mention them. What are they? Just<br>
the endieva wand & club-bows? And how is 'Tracking Song' *about* them?<br>
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gwern<br>
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