started my second read of New Sun

Lane Haygood · 14 May 2010, 18:50 · from 2010-May.txt.gz

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From: lhaygood at gmail.com (Lane Haygood)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 13:50:38 -0500
Subject: (urth) started my second read of New Sun
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The "HTW" or Heaven of the Forms from Plato/neoplatonism and Wolfe's
good-natured piracy of kabbalistic terminology share a common cultural
source and still crop up in more modern philosophy (Leibniz,
Plantinga, David Lewis, etc.).  It's all very interesting, at least to
a philosophy geek like me.

I always like it when very different authors mine the same ideas and
come up with differnet-sounding though very similar in form plot
points.

LH

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