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Title:Arcana Caelestia
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Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

712.0. "Guccione's Thursday's Child" by GIDDAY::DAVIES (The next time you're in town..) Mon Oct 17 1988 00:35

    
    I finaly found time to read some of the articals in the Aug-88
    issue of Omni. I found the piece by Nina Guccione (Thursday's Child)
   a very refreshing bit of S.F. It did address an interesting (and
    some times volatile) topic, but along with it's graphic narration
    I would think that it would please most of the people that would
    possibly read it. 
   
    The item that I am addressing is not so much the topic but the style
    and the mechanism used. This is on par with Julian May's style in
    the Pliocine series but on a much smaller level. Does any one have
    any other examples of this type of writing.
    
    
    s davies syd aust.
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712.1Could you be more specific?ATSE::WAJENBERGMake each day a bit surreal.Mon Oct 17 1988 11:534
    Please describe the "style and mechanism" you refer to, for those of us
    who haven't read Julian May or Nine Guccione.
    
    Earl Wajenberg
712.2non telepathic mode.GIDDAY::DAVIESThe next time you're in town..Tue Oct 18 1988 01:0929
    
    
    re:.1
    
    I am not very technical at describing what I read but I shall try.
    I would say that the mechanisim (if that is what you call it) used
    in the ,previously listed, articals would be very symbolic. That
    is ,in Julian May's series, most of the major events were mapped
    to real geological events that theoreticaly happened about 6 million
    years ago. Events in the story caused certain thing to happen that
    the results of which (at least some of them) can be seen today in
    Europe. Ie: meteorite created lakes ,rivers ,historical events
    with regard to the mediteranean basin. In the short Nina G. artical
    all of the major symbols refere to the bible. Each event in the
    story can be mapped to an occurenced in the biblicaly recorded times.
    
     All of the above mapped events are not the same as the original
    happening or situation .
    
    I just thought that this way of portraying factual or other well
    known event into different situations is quite interesting.
    
    
    Others that may have seen these peices may be able to help me out
    with the more technical definition of this.
    
    
    s davies 
    syd aust
712.3Worth reading...UCOUNT::BAILEYCorporate SleuthTue Oct 18 1988 11:0717
    Although I got REAL bored with Julian May by the time I finished
    the Pliocene trilogy, I agree that it was interesting to observe
    the artful way May gave "explanations" for lots of the fairy/troll
    etc. legends that linger into modern times.  Reminds me of the
    comparisons I've read of the Noah's Ark story with various other
    legendary and mythological flood stories from varied cultures. 
    
    It's a great realm for speculation -- who (if anyone) might have
    preceded us on the planet...and could it have been - US!?
    
    (Wouldn't THAT archeological evidence blow lots of minds!)
    
    By the way, although I did get bored, I do recommend Julian May
    for at least one read!  Her ideas are worth it.  (What can I say
    -- I guess I have a short attention span!)
    
    Sherry