Fantasy Masterworks #12: Gene Wolfe, Sword and Citadel

Jeff Wilson · 16 May 2011, 16:52 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:52:51 -0500
Subject: (urth) Fantasy Masterworks #12: Gene Wolfe, Sword and Citadel
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On 5/16/2011 6:15 AM, David Duffy wrote:
> I'm not sure if anyone has posted:
>
> http://sffmasterworks.blogspot.com/
>
> Scurries through in six and a half thousand words, ending
>
> "I know I did not touch upon everything and that some of my
> interpretations certainly can be challenged. Nonetheless, a work like
> this deserves nothing less than honest people arguing over matters of
> interpretation, no?"

"The storyline is again resumed after yet another break in the action. "

Just a thought, has anyone ever suggested that the gaps are meant to 
represent missing volumes of Sev's autobiography, damaged or lost 
entirely along the way back from future history?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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