started my second read of New Sun

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 13 May 2010, 18:53 · from 2010-May.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:53:52 -0700
Subject: (urth) started my second read of New Sun
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Lee,

I believe that Wolfe would say, rather than "the problem God has in
... conveying His
message to humanity," "the difficulty we have in understanding God's message."

--Dan'l

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Reformatted-
> >From Kurt Vonnegut's cartoonish Tralfamadorians to
> Frank Herbert's mystical Atreides guys, SF authors have struggled
> to convey the difficulty for a being who can simultaneously
> perceive multiple points in time to communicate with such limited
> beings as ourselves who can only directly perceive one moment at a time.
> I think Severian's dealings with Tzadkiel and various Hiero-dudes are
> Gene Wolfe's attempt to tackle the problem God has in accurately and
> understandably conveying His message to humanity.
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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