like, if R2D2 weren't a spec el, he'd be just some kind of robot pet who fulfills his narrative functions as a familiar and that's the end of it. he's a spec el b/c, accidentally or no, the math is done on his social function and what it would imply for things like him to exist
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I shall have to mull this over. I'm not familiar with The First Law, actually.
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I will, however, say that I firmly believe ASOIAF is absolutely 100% using the mytho-poetic mode, using it competently, but as a stylistic element is deploying averted or subverted tropes all over the place. The tropes, however, are mytho-poetic tropes.
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like, if i wanted i could summarize the story of Ringworld in broad mythographic terms, but that doesn't mean that's what Niven was doing
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Twilight.
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