academic commentary

Jeff Wilson · 29 Nov 2010, 08:35 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:35:09 -0600
Subject: (urth) academic commentary
In-Reply-To: <4CF305F1.90905 at sky.com>
References: <4CF305F1.90905 at sky.com>
Message-ID: <4CF365BD.8090208 at io.com>

On 11/28/2010 7:46 PM, Jane Delawney wrote:
> The author (Wright, that is)
> appears convinced that the religious and mythic elements many perceive
> in BoTNS and its 'relatives' are all part of classic Wolfean
> misdirection, and that these themes in fact disguise an elaborate
> self-interested scam on behalf of the Hierogrammates.

He effectively says the "evil does the work of the Increate, too" meme 
was planted by the Yesodis?

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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