On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's my problem with this dramatization of Terry's story (and I love > the story, which I've used with writing classes to illustrate how much can > be done with dialogue alone) -- the alien who's being informed seems to > never have heard these concepts before. Yet he's in some version of human > form, surrounded by meaty humans, smoking a cigarette -- it didn't seem to > add up. I'd always pictured disembodied, non-meat life forms discoursing in > some machine-like or gaseous or electrical or other non-meat environment. >
I really liked that aspect of it. I don't remember the story well enough to recall what was intended, but by having him in meat-form, I felt it highlighted the arrogance of the aliens. "Here we are in meat, and we still don't get it." It's a metaphor for any state of haughty enlightenment. -- eric scoles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
