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Re: RJ:Cloud, Castle, Lake (fwd)
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In your message dated Friday 20, October 1995 you wrote :
> From: Dieter E. Zimmer <100126.2576@compuserve.com>
>
> ... "he called on me ... kept on repeating that he must resign his position,
> begged me to let him go, insisted that he could not continue ... Of course I
>let him go."
> I believe that's precisely the point. The reader is led to think that the man
> must be a traveling salesman or the like. Yet there is no confirmation, and
>one cannot be certain.
sorry to labour the point Dieter, but I can't think of any reason why
VN should wish us to think otherwise. What would it add to the meaning
of the story?
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Dr Roy Johnson | Roy@mantex.demon.co.uk
PO Box 100 | Tel +44 0161 432 5811
Manchester 20 | Fax +44 0161 443 2766
> From: Dieter E. Zimmer <100126.2576@compuserve.com>
>
> ... "he called on me ... kept on repeating that he must resign his position,
> begged me to let him go, insisted that he could not continue ... Of course I
>let him go."
> I believe that's precisely the point. The reader is led to think that the man
> must be a traveling salesman or the like. Yet there is no confirmation, and
>one cannot be certain.
sorry to labour the point Dieter, but I can't think of any reason why
VN should wish us to think otherwise. What would it add to the meaning
of the story?
-
Dr Roy Johnson | Roy@mantex.demon.co.uk
PO Box 100 | Tel +44 0161 432 5811
Manchester 20 | Fax +44 0161 443 2766