urth Digest, Vol 18, Issue 3 - Trumps: GW and the Qabala
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Feb 2006
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Jim Raylor — 19 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).

> , 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

> > Hope it's of interest.

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

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