Hello, been a member for a while, but mostly lurked.
If I could venture my spin on this topic, I'd say that the Kanon is Russell's autobiography and I think she edited things out when she wrote it. And because of that, I cannot take everything she's said in them at face value. Even in her autobiography she felt the need to hide certain areas of her life, maybe even deliberately misrepresent events and things to preserve her privacy.
It does make for inconsistencies, and I wish she had found a different method than the one she chose, when the need to conceal something sensitive came up. It's like getting a jigsaw puzzle with several pieces that were designed to be wonky, so as not to fit.
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Date: 2007-09-21 03:38 am (UTC)If I could venture my spin on this topic, I'd say that the Kanon is Russell's autobiography and I think she edited things out when she wrote it. And because of that, I cannot take everything she's said in them at face value. Even in her autobiography she felt the need to hide certain areas of her life, maybe even deliberately misrepresent events and things to preserve her privacy.
It does make for inconsistencies, and I wish she had found a different method than the one she chose, when the need to conceal something sensitive came up. It's like getting a jigsaw puzzle with several pieces that were designed to be wonky, so as not to fit.
Maddening.