a false coin

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 03 Jan 2011, 18:21 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:21:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) a false coin
In-Reply-To: <SNT123-W167073C5BE10896EDFB494CF070 at phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <201612.1423.qm at web84108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

How would you see that? Perhaps you are thinking of the author as acrobat or mountebank (that is, a hint that Wolfe is playing the trickster), but it could also mean that the existence of true evil is false: evil is a performance.?
or is evil in the act and not the intent? that might be overthinking.

--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
Subject: (urth) a false coin
To: urth at lists.urth.net
Date: Monday, January 3, 2011, 12:31 PM

[p.s. David, I was reminded of an addition to our discussion of "Author as Demiurge": Gene Wolfe's
home address on St. Croix is 666 Saltimbanque St.- the Satanic Performer]
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