<div dir="ltr"><div>... believe themselves to be the other, Sandwalker and the Landers. </div><div><br></div><div>That ending probably makes more sense grammatically.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Marc Aramini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcaramini@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcaramini@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>The end of "A Story" hinges on a very ambiguous switch: indeterminacy between Lander and aboriginal, indeterminacy between Eastwind and Sandwalker. Though of course in the final analysis it is Eastwind and the abos who actually survive, though both groups believe them to be the other Sandwalker and the Landers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The switch for Eastwind is a bite, and in that way it tells the origin story of the shadow child Marsch. This is the climax of A Story, and the climax of the origin as well.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Marc Aramini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcaramini@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcaramini@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
<div dir="ltr"><div>It is Marsch's origin story overlain on the historical tale. </div><div><br></div><div>There is a wonderful scene where the cat is running around trying to bite him in the third novella and he narrowly escapes, and both the audience and Marsch are unaware of the severe consequences of the bite, giving him a few more days. He is bitten on the major Rogation Day.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">danldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div><div dir="ltr">I think an important point is being missed here. People keep treating "A Story" as if it were reliable. Give some thought to who wrote it and why and then decide whether (and to what extent) you think it's reliable.<span><font color="#888888"><div>
<div><br></div>-- <br>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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