Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis

Jeffrey Brent McBeth · 22 Sep 2009, 23:51 · from 2009-September.txt.gz

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From: mcbeth at broggs.org (Jeffrey Brent McBeth)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:51:48 -0400
Subject: (urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:28:55PM -0400, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> Orson Scott Card has written some very interesting Mormon based stuff.

I find his style too much Perelandra and Anthem and not enough Middle
Earth and Brave New World.  I love Wolfe and Chesterton and Tolkien
and ... precicely because while the author's beliefs are there in all
of them, there is more than just a didactic exercise in the latter.

Jeff

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