Talk:The Lathe of Heaven

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As this discussion page has been swamped by lengthy post that fail to make it clear what past or future changes to the article they discuss, I have moved the content to the above linked archive. Feel free to bring back material that still is relevant, but do make it clear in what way it is relevant to our editing process.--Niels Ø 09:21, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Re CLEAR. Well done, Niels. You make it absolutely clear that these posts failed to make it clear what they discuss. To you, that is.--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 09:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Re HOMAGE. It is difficult to say who was the first to call our book mistakenly an homage to Philip K. Dick. But you find this repeated everywhere, and so it is only right that it appears also in the article. Besides, there is in truth a touch of Dick in the Lathe. Anyone who has actually read the book, however, knows that had Ms Le Guin wanted to pay homage to Dick, she would have named a major figure, let's say the psychiatrist, Dick or maybe Dickens. Instead, she names the dreamer George Orr, in homage to George Orwell. And just in case that there might be readers so obtuse as not to catch on, she paints the picture of a drab Orwellian police state that has come into being after a revolution in - you guessed it - 1984. That's what is called an homage.--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 09:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dear Bruno

I see from your contributions page that you have made 241 talk page edits, 1 edit to your user page, and no article edits ever. Bringing up difficult questions on a talk page before making the edit in the article is generally a good idea, but I think you would do us all a favour if you started making relevant changes to actual articles. That is what editing wikipedia is about!

I will post the following on Bruno's talk page too.--Niels Ø 10:42, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Re EDITS. Dear Niels, I don't want to give anybody grounds to accuse me once more for dragging other users into off topic conversations on this page. So I hope you'll understand if I post my answer only on my own talk page.--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 13:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)