Wolfe's humor

The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 24 Oct 1997
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adam louis stephanides24 Oct 1997, 14:34original
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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997 urth-errors at lists.best.com wrote: From: "Tony Ellis" <tellis at futurenet.co.uk> Subject: Re: The Quiet Urth
Yes, Wolfe is a Catholic, but he is also a polymath, and a terrible punster, and I find plenty of double meanings and conceits in his stories that have nothing to do with Christian themes.
This reminds me of a topic that I've long been intending to bring up: Wolfe's humor. Most of Wolfe's work strikes me as utterly solemn (though there are undoubtedly things I'm missing); and his overtly humorous stories have, in my opinion, a lower proportion of successes than most of the other stuff he tries his hand at. But I do like the humorous short stories "Car Sinister" (though I suspect I may be a minority in this) and "An Article about Hunting." And "For- lesen," one of my favorites too, is full of dark humor of the sort that Kafka was so good at. Anybody have any other favorites? --Adam
Michael Straight24 Oct 1997, 15:59original

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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, adam louis stephanides wrote: This reminds me of a topic that I've long been intending to bring up: Wolfe's humor. Most of Wolfe's work strikes me as utterly solemn (though there are undoubtedly things I'm missing); and his overtly humorous stories have, in my opinion, a lower proportion of successes than most of the other stuff he tries his hand at. But I do like the humorous short stories "Car Sinister" (though I suspect I may be a minority in this) and "An Article about Hunting." And "For- lesen," one of my favorites too, is full of dark humor of the sort that Kafka was so good at. Anybody have any other favorites?
If found FREE LIVE FREE very humorous, but it's been too long to single out a particular passage. I thought THERE ARE DOORS has some funny bits too (particularly G. Gordon Liddy). -Rostrum

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