AEG only semi-spoilish

Mo Holkar / UKG · 20 Nov 2008, 10:01 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar / UKG)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:01:10 +0000
Subject: (urth) AEG only semi-spoilish
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At 00:03 20/11/2008, Dan'l wrote:
>So I don't suppose anyone on this list will be terribly surprised
>when I suggest that, in AN EVIL GUEST, Wolfe has similarly
>embedded Lovecraft's cosmology into the Christian ur-context.
>That Squiddie (Cthulhu) and R'lyeh and other Lovecraftiana are
>real in the novel seems beyond dispute. The cultists practice
>Lovecraftian nihilism, and it is "locally true" -- as long as they
>are under the influence of the GOOs, it may as well be true.


I'm happy to buy that -- I don't think Wolfe would have wanted to 
handle that material on any other basis -- but I'd like to see an 
exposition of the way the larger Christian picture might be seen to 
inform the events of AEG, because to me it's not all clear.

best wishes,

Mo


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