The Devil in a Forest

David Stockhoff · 19 May 2009, 15:15 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:15:42 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Devil in a Forest
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Exactly. And apparently it doesn't hurt to repeat that literature is not simply a conversion of ideology into story and plot. Insisting otherwise has long since stopped being amusing; it is now a minor irritation.

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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:10:37 -0500
From: Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) The Devil in a Forest
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I'm a democratic socialist and a member of the US Communist party. I  
also do not believe in God. It doesn't affect me one way or the other  
that Wolfe is my opposite number on these positions, because his  
stories are still very, very awesome.

Good literature transcends factionalism.

Lane

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On May 19, 2009, at 9:47 AM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:


> > Actually, "Wolfe is pro-gun" has the ring of truth to it, as does  
> > "Wolfe
> > is a fiscal conservative". He has his point of view on things.  
> > People who
> > agree with him generally have no trouble seeing it.
> >
> > People who (a) like Wolfe's fiction and (b) hold political views very
> > different from his tend to (I have noticed) jump through interesting  
> > hoops
> > whilst explaining that Wolfe does not actually believe what everyone  
> > else
> > seems to think he does. Anything but that. They will deny it at  
> > length.
> > Like most things, this is amusing once it stops being annoying.


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