<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>No dia 06/08/2014, às 14:22, Gerry Quinn <<a href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>> escreveu:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/08/2014 14:07, Marc Aramini
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<blockquote cite="mid:CAF1072z43_zYqcwaZOey1rM_DEC1uBpB4-bxX6rZ06u2vjudKA@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">I wrote this step in the exegesis just for you, Gerry
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<font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font>1)</font><font> </font><font>That
an extraordinary event actually could be forgotten, so
that he can’t be trusted to reliably remember it. If he
could remember it, then the premise of the story is
invalid. If we do not accept this premise, the analysis
can stop right here – the extraordinary event in his life
is that he never met Suzanne Delage.</font></span></font></div>
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Indeed, that is the extraordinary event. The point of the story is
its implications. There's also the question of *why*, to which it
seems we are given no answer.<br></div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023a3"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023a3">You mean to say Wilfe wrote a story with a foregone unremarkable conclusion? Why write it at all? In which act is the gun fired?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023a3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023a3">(I like guns that don't end firing, but they'd better be surrounded by others that do.)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023a3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023a3">That the narrator hasn't forgotten the fact that he never met SD automatically prevents it from being an extraordinary event that has been forgotten. Not to mention that it isn't an event at all.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023a3"><br></font></div></body></html>