Damn filthy Hiero-wasp-creatures

Matthew Groves · 08 Jan 2008, 12:52 · from 2008-January.txt.gz

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From: matthewalangroves at gmail.com (Matthew Groves)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:52:10 -0600
Subject: (urth) Damn filthy Hiero-wasp-creatures
In-Reply-To: <000c01c851c0$f2be7d40$38ca5a42 at rclackey.stic.net>
References: <000c01c851c0$f2be7d40$38ca5a42 at rclackey.stic.net>
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On Jan 5, 2008 11:18 PM,  <thalassocrat at nym.hush.com> wrote:
>
> One of the things not to like about this reading is that in some
> ways it turns NS into a literary trick analogous to those of the
> Hiero-dudes.

Speaking for myself, this is the nail in the coffin of this reading.
Calling it a "literary trick" makes it sound like something Wolfe
might do, but really it just turns too much of The Book of the New Sun
into a Big Fat Lie.

On Jan 8, 2008 12:37 AM, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:
>
> As you are doubtless aware, I have argued the opposite view before

Roy, would it be possible for you to find and post a link to that old argument?

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