AEG only semi-spoilish

James Crossley · 20 Nov 2008, 00:17 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: ishmael at drizzle.com (James Crossley)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:17:46 -0800
Subject: (urth) AEG only semi-spoilish
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Message-ID: <C549ECAA.8030%ishmael at drizzle.com>

On 11/19/08 4:03 PM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here goes Dan'l with his nutty theory again...
> 
> My ongoing theory is that one of Wolfe's basic themes/memes/working
> methods is to embed non-Christian cosmologies into larger Christian
> contexts. That is, in these novels Christianity is ultimately true but some
> other belief system functions locally as if it were true.
> 
I?m not going to be able to back this up in any way, but I whole-heartedly
agree.  In the worlds of Wolfe?s books, elaborate cosmologies appear to
belie Christian truth, but he always lets Jehovah peek through the cracks.
I imagine that?s how Wolfe thinks it worked in the real world, too, with a
deepening pagan understanding of the world eventually giving way to the
revealed Christianity behind the scenes.

James 
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