--- Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote: > At 04:47 PM 3/5/2003 -0800, Philip Hart wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Steven Brust wrote: >>> At 05:33 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, Gaertk at aol.com wrote: >>>> So what was the reason behind the stream-of-3- >>>> consciousnesses bit in _Issola_? >>> If you don't know, then they didn't work. >>Couldn't it (they, whatever) have worked without his >> consciously knowing? > Well, I dunno. If the reader goes, "What the hell was *that* > doing in there?" then I have to say it didn't work, at least > by my standards. What if we readers "freely admit that [your] subtleties are sometimes so far beyond us as to leave us confused as to theme, plot, subplot, and, in general, what exactly the Master is trying to tell us (all the while, the [author] may rest assured, we are admiring his skillfully wrought speeches and fine distinction of mood and meter)"? -- Greg