The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Gerry Quinn · 03 Jul 2010, 21:30 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 22:30:53 +0100
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
> No doubt Wolfe thinks that weapons in themselves are morally neutral, as 
> Dan'l says, but he seems to attach more importance to them than a lot of 
> writers do.  In addition to the examples people have mentioned, "The Peace 
> Spy" shows nuclear weapons as protecting the world from war.

Yeah, but not from _fear_.

- Gerry Quinn

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