Father Inire and SF loathing

don doggett · 13 Jun 2006, 02:16 · from 2006-June.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:16:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Father Inire and SF loathing
In-Reply-To: <200606120707.06093.ddjones at riddlemaster.org>
Message-ID: <20060613021631.95932.qmail at web32409.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

--- Daniel D Jones <ddjones at riddlemaster.org> wrote:

> Interestingly enough, pretentiousness is one of the
> charges that is frequently 
> leveled at both Donaldson and Wolfe.

I don't find Wolfe's style pretentious at all, mainly
because it serves his story. Too many writers are (in
my biased opinion, of course) in love with the Word
for its own sake and I feel they are either mistaking
the finger for the moon or covering for their lack of
anything relevant to say. Wolfe, at his simplest, is
saying THINK, which in this day and age is as
worthwhile as anything.

Don

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