# Digest urth.v031.n022

*The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 02 Jan 2002*

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### Alice K. Turner
*02 Jan 2002, 22:14*

> Yes, it's a fantastic essay.    I believe it positions Wolfe as a
> conscious
> inheritor of Lewis and Tolkien  -  far more *deliberately* using his art
> in
> the service of his political and social ideals than he has ever
> acknowledged
> up till now.

I think I missed something. What are we talking about here? I tried to
access the archive but it seems out of business (as Ranjit has been warning
us it would be). Where is this essay posted? I presume it's the same one I
posted the reference to and Ratty replied to.

-alga

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### Adam Stephanides
*02 Jan 2002, 23:36 · follows Alice K. Turner*

> on 1/2/02 4:14 PM, Alice K. Turner at aturner3 at nyc.rr.com wrote:
> I think I missed something. What are we talking about here? I tried to
> access the archive but it seems out of business (as Ranjit has been warning
> us it would be). Where is this essay posted? I presume it's the same one I
> posted the reference to and Ratty replied to.

No, it's an essay specifically about Tolkien, originally published in
INTERZONE.  It's posted at
http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/docindex.html

--Adam

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