Neil Gaiman on Wolfe and Sorcerer's House

Jeff Wilson · 09 Apr 2010, 16:56 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:56:10 -0500
Subject: (urth) Neil Gaiman on Wolfe and Sorcerer's House
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On 4/8/2010 7:38 PM, Robert Thornton wrote:

> I will quote the most interesting part of the review here:
>
> "As a side note, I have a mad theory that you can always find a Wolf in a Gene Wolfe book, and it will always be the key, or a key, to the text. This book does nothing to disprove my theory."

Some times it's madder than others: he was on the nose with all the 
clues that the 5HC narrator was "Gene Wolfe", but also nominated the 
alzabo as a sort of gene-seeking wolf.


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