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[Paul DiFilippo]

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    Msg:  970707125909 515664.456256 EHL57-28
    Subj: TRP and accuracy
    Date: 07-Jul-97 08:59 EDT
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    If, as SF critic John Clute among others, has suggested,
    the tactic of "misprision"--a deliberate kind of intuitive
    misapprehension or stretching of an author's works--can be a 
    valuable critical tool, then why can't _authorial misprision_
    work too:  an author's deliberate misapprehension of reality,
    transmuting it to something that is _truer than true_?  And hey,
    don't forget, TRP himself told us in the SLOW LEARNER intro
    that "ignorance is a territory with its own map."
    
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    Paul Di Filippo & Deborah Newton/2 Poplar St./Prov., RI 02906
    "So far as the interests of the capitalist go it does not matter
    whether he invests his money at home or abroad; it does not matter
    whether his goods are manufactured in London or Timbuctoo." HG Wells
    
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Paul Di Filippo & Deborah Newton/2 Poplar St./Prov., RI 02906
"So far as the interests of the capitalist go it does not matter
whether he invests his money at home or abroad; it does not matter
whether his goods are manufactured in London or Timbuctoo." HG Wells