Severian (the torturer) on writing
The Usenet list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 16 Jan 2009
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Daniel Damouth — 16 Jan 2009, 19:30

I'm reading _The Book of the New Sun_ for the first time, and laughed 
at this:

"I know little of literary style; but I have learned as I have 
progressed, and find this art not so much different from my old one as 
might be thought."

-from _Shadow of the Torturer_

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htn963 — 16 Jan 2009, 20:06
  in reply to Daniel Damouth

> On Jan 16, 11:30=A0am, Daniel Damouth <damo... at san.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm reading _The Book of the New Sun_ for the first time, and laughed
> at this:
> 
> "I know little of literary style; but I have learned as I have
> progressed, and find this art not so much different from my old one as
> might be thought."
> 
> -from _Shadow of the Torturer_

Reading Severian is torture.  It was the occasional vivid scenes and
well-realized inventions which made Wolfe's BOTNS series worth reading
for me, not the author's mannerly prose or his protagonist.  (Vance
does it much better.)  In this instance, substance triumphed over
style.

  --
  Ht

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wjtingle — 16 Jan 2009, 22:44
  in reply to Daniel Damouth

> Daniel Damouth wrote:
> I'm reading _The Book of the New Sun_ for the first time, and laughed 
> at this:
> 
> "I know little of literary style; but I have learned as I have 
> progressed, and find this art not so much different from my old one as 
> might be thought."
> 
> -from _Shadow of the Torturer_

No argument from me. I got to the end of the first book and pronounced a 
Double Dorothy on all Wolfe's writing, in perpetuity.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

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