12-01-2012, 09:10 AM
Thanks, Meerie, for confirming my suspicions: having worked as a writer and editor, I couldn't help but notice right away that the grammar, syntax and vocabulary of Spencer, MacElroy, and the entity are all very similar--stilted, formal, stylistically flat. Mrs. MacElroy's letter in particular sounds like it was written in the same voice as Spencer's introductory material. The whole thing reads like it was all written by one person, and the historical/universal "space opera" scenario predicted is woefully simplistic, and anthropomorphic to the point of being Hollywoodian. I started mumbling "fake" early on and nothing that I saw changed my mind. This is all a far cry from The Ra Material, with its mix of tortuous, often intimidating style and vocabulary (that only an idiot would invent if the goal was to fool people or make money or whatever), staggering complexity, fathomless poetical and psychological insight, deeply nuanced moral/ethical vision, innovative philosophical/spiritual concepts, and so on.