Re: [CRIT] Opening

Mary K. Kuhner wrote:
In article <1i4rep7.1ms1hnd1qth03lN%spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jonathan L Cunningham <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim S <Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Catja Pafort wrote:
[lots of stuff snipped]

Letting you do something you really, really wanted to do, when you strictly ought to have been doing something else, is an authoritarian
style of relating to others which would have encountered _resistance_
from you?

My bogglemeter explodes.
Thank you Tim. I was beginning to wonder where I'd lost my sanity, but
perhaps I still have it.

Sorry about your bogglemeter though. I'd lend you mine, except it seems
to have stopped working ...

Jonathan

The thing is, though, that *once you explain what is going on* the
scenes work, they are interesting, they are believable--but it seems
to take explanation to get there. What's initially on the page isn't
quite enough.

You've gotten that reaction so consistently (and not just from Catja)
that it does seem there might be something missing from the version
as initially written. And explaining to us doesn't do anything about
that, since you can't package those explanations with your book.

Having other people suggest specific additions is not making you
happy, that's clear enough. Is there some other kind of feedback
which would be more helpful?

I don't think that's what's going on at all. I think we have a difference between two kinds of reader. I didn't think there was a lack of explanation; if anything, I thought there was too much.

Tim
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  • Re: [CRIT] Opening
    ... strictly ought to have been doing something else, is an authoritarian ... style of relating to others which would have encountered _resistance_ ... Sorry about your bogglemeter though. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.composition)
  • Re: [CRIT] Opening
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  • Re: Skolems Paradox
    ... And I can't see why you don't consider it an explanation. ... by relating it to old terminology that presumably you ... shown how to translate a sentence of the form "S is true ... and logical concepts: quantifiers, set membership, comparisons. ...
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    ... Thank you Tim. ... Sorry about your bogglemeter though. ... You've gotten that reaction so consistently ... of explanation; if anything, I thought there was too much. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.composition)
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