"Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

Daniel Petersen · 29 Apr 2011, 21:50 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Petersen)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:50:48 +0100
Subject: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
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'I do think he is saying realistic fiction leaves out the unexplained
mystery of life, the majestic grace of the impossible that creeps into our
everyday, that ignores things that are beyond the rational and explicable
laws of the commonly perceived reality and fiction'

Yes.  So, no.  I don't think it's the pot/kettle scenario.

DOJP

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Some of Wolfe's interviews are priceless for that quality.  "Looking for
> the thumb print under the lily"?  Oh, it was a lily, huh?
>
> Anybody read his contribution to Last Drink Bird Head?  I feel like that
> little exercise is SO classic Wolfe.  Sets up a scenario, throws in a random
> plastic toy, and then leaves us to figure out how the concluding event went
> down.  I think it is not necessarily an impossible task, but it sure is a
> bit inscrutable to fully "get" that conclusion. (Did Damon Knight get really
> mad? What happened to the toy?  why is the unconscious guy back there at the
> end of the bar?  Is that his toy bird?)
>
> I do think he is saying realistic fiction leaves out the unexplained
> mystery of life, the majestic grace of the impossible that creeps into our
> everyday, that ignores things that are beyond the rational and explicable
> laws of the commonly perceived reality and fiction, (but we all know what he
> was really saying, anyway).
>
> --- On Fri, 4/29/11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
> > Subject: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
> > To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> > Date: Friday, April 29, 2011, 12:24 PM
> > I just read this quote by Wolfe.
> >
> > Irony? Pot-Meet-Kettle?
> >
> > J
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