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Calling proponents of a position "politically correct" is itself a form of ad hominem. But if it is going to be *defended* as a category, then... In my experience, unironic "polit…
30 Jan 2020, 19:25
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Oops. Here’s the link: https://rereadingwolfe.podbean.com/e/bonus-joan-gordon-talks-about-gene-wolfe-and-chapter-6-the-master-of-the-curators-the-shadow-of-the-torturer-the-book-of…
19 Oct 2019, 22:38
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At the 1:03 mark of the latest episode of the Rereading Wolfe podcast I took a crack at explaining the meaning of the second novella in The Fifth Head of Cerberus (“A Story” by Joh…
19 Oct 2019, 20:09
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I think that is the original coloring. Mine is the same.…
23 Mar 2012, 20:33
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Gene Wolfe's daughter gave him a framed copy of this.…
22 Mar 2012, 18:11
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Whether or not the Enlightenment was powered by Christian ethics and world-view, I seriously doubt that the Enlightenment movement itself was the primary source behind the abolit…
21 Mar 2012, 18:49
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Valya was the organizer of the event.…
21 Mar 2012, 15:16
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Well, to the Heirogrammates, the existence of the Heiros (not any specific Heiros so far as we know) are more important than the continued lives of the specific Urthlings at the …
20 Mar 2012, 22:16
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More stuff as I remember it: At our table, Patrick O'Leary openly speculated at our table that *perhaps* Wolfe was influenced to use the name Palatine Hill in "Long Sun" by the …
20 Mar 2012, 20:35
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A post from Michael Swanwick about the event: http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2012/03/wolfe-fete.html…
20 Mar 2012, 20:00
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I don't want to tread ground that has already been trod, but it seems to me that this conflates two things that are connected only at different levels. Ushas is better from the p…
20 Mar 2012, 19:55
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So you agree with Crane. Actually, Crane could be right about the brain aneurism and yet Silk's experiences with the Outsider could still be 100% valid. Remember that Latro's abi…
20 Mar 2012, 18:54
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Unless The Divine is not a concept like Economics or Geography, but instead a Person like, for example, the Outsider who is not discovered or understood but instead reveals himse…
20 Mar 2012, 17:31
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Some pictures from the event: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3588087063033.2169083.1299000908&type=3 <https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3588087063033.2169083.12…
20 Mar 2012, 16:50
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Yeah Marc, post a list! At least a first 25. If we're going, to start with the "Young Wolfe" stories I'll have to track down that volume. Sent from my iPhone…
20 Mar 2012, 03:00
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Yeah, I got one of those when I drank from a stream on a camping trip.…
19 Mar 2012, 21:38
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It never occurred to me that in the early books of Bible God is ever depicted as actually feeling to be in competition with actual rivals (as opposed to /effective/ competition f…
19 Mar 2012, 21:05
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I don't think this is what is meant by an "impersonal god" when comparing it with, say, Zen Buddhism. I think "impersonal" doesn't mean a Person who is uncommunicative. It means …
19 Mar 2012, 20:23
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Yeah. I would say it is equally true of the OT and the NT God. The OT creates the Earth and the sun, moon, stars and light itself. Yet, he has personal conversations with Moses an…
19 Mar 2012, 19:46
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Well, given that the Outsider asserted that all powers that pretend to be gods will (in some way) tend to become Him specifically, then, yes, he *does* seem to imbue all matter. …
19 Mar 2012, 18:14
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Okay. Let's see what I can add to what Marc posted: This initial ceremonies were instituted in a house that --as Wolfe remarked-- appeared to be the sort of place that you have t…
19 Mar 2012, 16:45
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This theme came up in Latro In the Mist as well. Io compared the gods actors in a play she saw. "The actors wore masks but the people in the play [eg the characters] didn't know.…
16 Mar 2012, 23:11
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"Atop" is fine. That's a fine British accent you have there.…
16 Mar 2012, 20:36
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Try some of his short stories and novellas: Photogen and Nycteris (aka Day Boy & Night Girl, aka Son of the Day, Daughter of Night) Light Princess (aka Little Daylight) Golden Ke…
16 Mar 2012, 14:19
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Um...I think he recognized that his views were enough at variance with the beliefs of his fellow-travellers** that it merited noting the fact. And he certainly did note it in "Th…
16 Mar 2012, 00:17
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For the record, I never had any problem seeing the allegorical parts in LWW or the Silver Chair (the most allegorical of all the stories). TLB is not even allegorical. It's merel…
15 Mar 2012, 23:22
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Let me put this way: I think Rose/Marble/Molybdenum and Silk/Horn/Rajan *rationalize* the Trinity. They examine how a person can be three-in-one. These are good instances for my …
15 Mar 2012, 22:42
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I think we also disagree that The Short Sun conflates the Outsider with Dionysus. I think it is more likely that it conflates Dionysus with the inhabitants of Green and with the …
15 Mar 2012, 20:19
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Possibly. Like I said, the Sun Cycle is verrrry gnostic. That doesn't make Wolfe gnostic. His belief that the gods are real does not make him gnostic even if he believed them to …
15 Mar 2012, 19:16
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I don't think so. Not in themselves. Wolfe's off-hand proposition that the gods were "real" in some way but not deserving of worship would only be directly tied to conventional …
15 Mar 2012, 17:31
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Yes, Heiros is a bad term in this instance, since we're differentiating the human creators from their creation. But if the Yesodis only want to ascend with the Heiros humans, why…
14 Mar 2012, 23:31
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CS Lewis also poses the possibility of the reality of pagan gods in some for or another. The Apostle Paul, while accepting that offerings to idols are without value, yet asserts…
14 Mar 2012, 21:20
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Look, the justification for Ushas is simple: Humanity's descendants cruelly (tortuously) transformed animals into the Heiros. And now the Heiros are returning the favor to ensure …
14 Mar 2012, 21:11
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I can't place it at the moment. He doesn't call Card out by name. He just said that he has a "friend" who was a Mormon and worked his religion in everything he wrote. Wolfe said …
14 Mar 2012, 17:13
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I think it is a big mistake to read Wolfe as one would read Chesterton or Lewis. He's not primarily "justifying God's ways to man". Nor is he primarily demonstrating the moral & …
14 Mar 2012, 16:42
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:-D…
02 Mar 2012, 19:05
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Look up the term "allusion".…
02 Mar 2012, 18:45
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Yeah, but I think that's fair. The reference to "the son of Thyone", to "Silent Silk" and "Silver Silk", the etymology of "inhuma" to Dionysus (as I believe), and the parallels t…
02 Mar 2012, 16:24
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I don't think "mainly" a good term. The bread and wine are overt references the Eucharist. The man on the scaffold and the "fortunate man who was enlightened and possessed by the…
02 Mar 2012, 02:27
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At the end of The Wizard, Able feeds his blood to Disiri until she is raised to his level, from an Aelf (her true form being mud and sticks and leaves) to human. This is a very e…
28 Feb 2012, 17:12
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IIRC when things go to hell, the Most Low God turns and runs away. We see his back, so we know he was lying about the worlds being circular. And surely the Most Low God must alwa…
28 Feb 2012, 08:21
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yeah, that's true. The tickets are being sold through a third party so it's probably not possible to transfer our tickets to a table.…
23 Feb 2012, 21:26
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People who I have heard are going: Mantis Marc Aramini Antonin Scriabin Me. Hope to see you there Michael.…
22 Feb 2012, 18:55
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I think mine's ready. I'll just let it stew a little.…
21 Feb 2012, 23:55
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Essentially, it's a dump of the things I always tell people when I'm trying to turn them on to Wolfe.…
17 Feb 2012, 16:33
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http://jameswynn.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-march-17th-im-planning-to-attend.html "Like Misfortune, remarkable gifts are not bestowed according to merit. But sometimes the piano doe…
17 Feb 2012, 05:01
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http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/marcus-aurelius…
13 Feb 2012, 16:48
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yeah, I was really pumped at the idea that all these great writers would be making even casual appearances at the camp. Gene in short pants doing camp projects is an idea I shall…
13 Feb 2012, 16:45
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Here's a treat: http://www.wofford.edu/sharedworlds/critters/index.html Click on the website to view the shared world critters. Click on a critter in the poster to view it's sta…
09 Feb 2012, 15:56
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I'll be back when time permits me to crack a book again.…
19 Jan 2012, 17:57
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