Quotations

Adam Thornton · 01 Jan 2011, 21:57 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:57:57 -0600
Subject: (urth) Quotations
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On 01/01/2011 03:07 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
> There is a lot more. I think WOlfe owes much to Borges.  David (stockhoff), per our previous discussion and my
> observations of possible devil/demiurge associations with Ultan (Borges), it may be that Wolfe does this inspired
> by Borges' own self-assessment (if there is more in his work like #4).

I'm quite sure that:

1) Ultan is meant to be (FSVO) Borges.  In fact it's Ultan that 
convinced me that Nessus was intended to be the future Buenos Aires, 
because after all how many south-of-the-Equator blind National 
Librarians can there be?

2) Cyby is the Gary-Stu insertion of Wolfe into the story (thanks to 
someone--maybe Borski?  Maybe someone else? at ReaderCon '98 for 
pointing this out to me).

3) So of course Ultan is Author-as-Demiurge, and as acknowledged mentor 
to our actual authorial demiurge.  But then I think of BotNS, in some 
sense, as "What if Borges had written _The Dying Earth_?"

Adam

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