<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>I explained how I interpret the text of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Fifth Head of Cerberus</span>.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.8888893127441px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: italic; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.8888893127441px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Mr Quinn prefers a different interpretation, one I regard as untenable because if that interpretation is accepted as correct the entire subtext of the story vanishes into thin air.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.8888893127441px; font-family:
HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.8888893127441px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I shall argue no farther, but neither Mr Quinn nor anyone else should assume that means I cannot, should I wish to do so, carry the argument further. I visit urth.net to pick up clues, hints and suggestions to eke out my own understanding of Gene Wolfe's works, not to promote an interpretation of my own. I offered my reading of </span><span style="font-style: italic;">5HoC</span> to see whether there were any reasonable objections to it. There are none, so I shall keep it.</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, 6 September 2014, 3:38, Lee <severiansola@hotmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">>Gerry Quinn: Few would claim to have the final word on issues of<br><br>>logic or truth. Forthunately, the identification of logical <br><br>>inconsistencies requires no such power.<br><br><br>I am not understanding. If a person reads a work of fiction and comes<br><br>to what they feel is a "logical" interpretation and someone else feels<br><br>that interpretation contains "logical inconsistencies", I think there<br><br>are only two ways to proceed. Either there is agreement to disagree with<br><br>an acknowledgement of equality or one person (or both)
claims the <br><br>superiority of their logical prowess over the other.<br><br><br>>And the placement of scare quotes about the concept of logic is never a <br>>happy sight,<br><br><br>I'm uncertain as to the nature of what "scare quotes" might be. In this<br><br>case I use quotes to indicate the wording someone else had previously used<br><br>as well as to indicate that I question the validity of "logic" and "truth"<br><br>in understanding artwork.<br><br><br>What logical equation can explain why watches have a liquid quality in a<br><br>Dali painting? What truth can be found in the appearance of a blue haired<br><br>woman in the balcony of a David Lynch film?<br><br><br>Surely there are human ways of perceiving the world and understanding art <br><br>other than logic? Surely the word "intuition" is not completely bereft of<br><br>all meaning?
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