Ascians' Thematic Purppose (was ATTENDING DAEDALUS)

James Wynn · 30 Jan 2006, 14:12 · from 2006-January.txt.gz

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From: thewynns at earthlink.net (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:12:43 -0500
Subject: (urth) Ascians' Thematic Purppose (was ATTENDING DAEDALUS)
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Even if Wolfe *did* intend the Ascians political structure and language to
be a reference to Maoism and Buck Rogers (and the connection, it must be
admitted, is only inferable -- I am not aware of any other references in
TBOTNS to Ming or Buck Rogers), yet that does not make the make the analogy
to Newspeak invalid. Calling the Ascian language "a sort of Newspeak" does
not even imply that Wolfe intended a narrative connection to "1984".

J

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