Graves etc.

Marc Aramini · 19 Jan 2008, 04:24 · from 2008-January.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:24:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Graves etc.
In-Reply-To: <003e01c85992$225740e0$b7c95a42 at rclackey.stic.net>
Message-ID: <462009.39677.qm at web58215.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

sorry roy, hadn't checked my email for a few days.

Yes, I was about to post something to that effect -
Wolfe is a reader of fiction, and while he researches
his novels, I think we would be surprised to note how
much time he has spent exclusively writing rather than
amassing a huge collection of esoteric and obscure
books that he peruses in his infinite time.  

I think he once told me he hadn't gotten far in War
and Peace, nor read the entirety of Brothers
Karamazov.  However, to be fair, he has certainly read
all of Dickens and Proust and Herodotus and
Chesterton, and the other obvious influences.

But you don't have to have read everything to be a
great creator, eh?

--- "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:

> I wrote:
> 
> >I vowed at the time Marc Aramini posted what Wolfe
> really had to say about
> >_The White Goddess_ that I was going to post a link
> to that post every time
> >someone raised the specter of _The White Goddess_
> and its supposed
> influence
> >on Wolfe. I can't seem to find it now, so it must
> be in the year of lost
> >archives. Could you send it again, Marc?
> 
> Well, Marc didn't answer, but I'm not the only one
> to remember that post.
> Thanks to Tony Ellis, I am able to append it here.
> The post is, indeed, in
> the lost year of archives. I know it upsets many
> long-held and cherished
> theories of Wolfe interpretation, which is probably
> why it has been widely
> forgotten, but it bears repeating.
> 
> -Roy
> 

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