urth Digest, Vol 18, Issue 3 - Trumps: GW and the Qabala

Jim Raylor19 Feb 2006, 14:50

Thanks for this one, though it rekindled my suspicions of a Qabalistic significance in 5HOC. Will I never finish with that book? To cut a long story short, I believe GW used the tree of life for the family tree allowing him to effectively create a literary Aleph (a la Borges).

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, Jesper Svedberg wrote:

I just found out that one can now read Gene Wolfe's Rhysling Award winning poem "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps" online at:

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060213/1wolfe-computer-p.shtml

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Hope it's of interest.

Thanks! It was neat to see Wolfe invoke 23, also.

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