From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce@gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Style (spoiler)
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 22:44:15 

<defense of the 3rd person sections of RttW snipped>

Very nice, mantis.  

> This particular fanfic angle might also lead to some of the more
> tricky ("potentially destabilizing of a given reading") questions
> inspired by John Crowley's ENGINE SUMMER, since the same can be said
> of it in its entirety.  To the same sort of reader
> disappointment/thwarting, etc.

Ok, I'll bite.  It's been a while since I read ENGINE SUMMER, but I'm
about to reread it again.  Which specific destabilizing questions are
you talking about?  (I can think of a couple of possibilities, but
there may be more).


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