Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 23 May 2011, 17:29 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:29:18 -0700
Subject: (urth) Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?
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Lee Berman <wrote:

> Dan'l, in your view were the first seven mentions of a Flood meant as non-directional Biblical/
> geological references? And Wolfe drew upon these only post-hoc while writing UotNS?

No, it seems clear to me that Wolfe indicated in the original quartet
that the coming of the White Fountain/New Sun would bring vast Urthly
devastation, floods and the rising of new continents (and the sinking
of old ones).

> For me the opposite seems more likely, as there seem to be many other examples where Wolfe
> really expects his readers to figure something out but none do (or it takes 20+ years for an
> especially astute reader to get it and pass it along to others).

Grin. Exactly.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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