finally read AEG

Cliff Judge · 30 Nov 2010, 18:57 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: transentient at gmail.com (Cliff Judge)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:57:27 -0500
Subject: (urth) finally read AEG
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=NTJoj4apxPOScEja1yTs28fbwnBa0t9SypW3N at mail.gmail.com>

It was definitely my least favorite Gene Wolfe novel and I have read all of
them except for that one really old one.

One question and one observation:

Q. When Cassie was watching the news, to get across the idea that the world
of this novel was kind of fallen, the reporter interviewed a young man on
the street who wore a golden phallus about his neck. Why did Wolfe choose to
give the Autarch a cameo appearance?

O: Izanami was one of the two most important gods in the Japanese pantheon;
she married Izanagi and they had several children. The last child was the
god of fire.
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