the prime calcula/his citadel and other quotes

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 18 Jan 2011, 21:23 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:23:54 -0800
Subject: (urth) the prime calcula/his citadel and other quotes
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Marc Aramini wrote:


> And anyway, how cool is it that Wolfe made his conciliator
> figure slaughter humanity and his Satan figure preserve it
> not only in the whorl but possibly contributing his genetic
> stock to one of the few unarguably "good" characters in
> the sun universe?

Tres cool indeed.

> I always felt that Wolfe was at heart a religious allegorist

Um, not so much. Say religious _symbolist_ and I'm right there with
you, but an allegory is a very specific beast with well-defined "A
stands for X, B stands for Y, C stands for Z" etc. correspondences.
That his symbols are so

> slippery and mutable and difficult to pin down in interpretation.

makes them definitevely _not_ allegorical.


> Wolfe shows us over and over how evil ultimately serves good,

Yes.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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