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From: eric@whuxle.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Asimov's Future History? - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 14-Jan-84 19:06:57 EST
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whuxle!eric    Jan 14 19:06:00 1984

This is in reply to (gee I forgot your  name),  who  stated  that
there was a contradiction in the Foundation stories, since in the
second book the Mule is described as an outcast who discovers PSI
powers, while in Foundation's Edge he is an "aberrant Gaian"

The only point I want to make is that everything here depends  on
whose story you want to believe (bear with me). We know from what
Asimov writes in Second Foundation that  the  Mule  was  a  court
jester of sorts.  HOWEVER-- is this Asimov the ALL KNOWING writer
teling us this or is this a narrator telling WHAT HE  KNEW  THEN.
Clarifaction...  the Mule could have fabricated that whole story,
as he couldn't justt say "hey, y'all I just came from  this  REAL
mind  bending  place,  man!!",  and Asimov could relate the whole
story AS a narrator, instead of as the ALL KNOWING AUTHOR....


                from the keyboard of

                eric holtman
                ihnp4!whuxle!eric