Wow, Eric! Your comment blew me away! What you've described resembles
the kind of thing I've been trying to write for the past 15 years or so:
the project that is Descending Road and the ELM supporting it! That's
why I ended up with multiple POVs, multiple masters of the narrative,
and threading and glossaries and references all automated - and I'm
still having trouble making it comprehensible to mortals like myself. Ha!
On 4/19/2011 8:57 AM, Eric Scoles wrote:
...
Many many moons ago I conceived of a character who would be a master
of memory, the end of a long lineage of such masters, who transferred
their history orally and as a result, had verse and prose maps of a
whole continent in their head at any given time, situated in history.
It was hard writing and in the end I let that aspect of it slide,
because I couldn't find a way to write the PoV of such a person and
make it comprehensible to ordinary mortals.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Dana Paxson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
How clearly this emerges as we try to drink from the informational
firehoses every day. Two thoughts:
1) To trust certain people with the culling tasks is to empower
them. In the social framework, culling can be the enemy of choice.
2) Surrender may be inevitable and necessary, but the fabrics of
information are interwoven so richly and finely that many works
inform each work we read. The traces of Aristotle lie latent in
most of what we read in the West. We need not read Euclid's
Elements to gather its meaning, because most published
mathematical works use its paradigms. And the few who read one
obscure scribbler may find in their reading what will inform all
that they write, which in turn whole worlds may read. Surrender,
in the end, becomes a joyful swim in the great seas of knowledge.
On 4/19/2011 7:43 AM, Alicia Henn wrote:
Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and
mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/18/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything
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