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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 19 Dec 2011, 18:17 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:17:43 -0800
Subject: (urth) instant new fan
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I have many favorite passages in tBotNS, all of which totally blow me
away with the beauty of the language.

My favorite, however, must be the passage in _Citadel_ where he
realizes that the Claw was just the thorn of a rosebush, ending with
the line about throwing his boots into the sea so that he might not
walk shod on holy land.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wolfe's writing is very beautiful, and he uses such vivid, unique language.
> I haven't memorized the passage, but the part in The Shadow of the Torturer
> where Ultan is describing the different books in the library; wonderful!
> That together with the nearby Book of Gold passage really made me fall in
> love with that book in particular and Wolfe in general.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Daniel Petersen
> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, so many truly wonderful lines and passages. ?I remember loving the
>> really robust mountainous language at the beginning of SotL, starting with
>> the sentence: ?'Thrax is a crooked dagger entering the heart of the
>> mountains.'
>>
>> You know, I don't think I've ever seen Wolfe's writing (as in style or
>> tone or texture of prose, etc.) discussed on this list.
>>
>> -DOJP
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:58 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/18/2011 7:59 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thought people here might enjoy seeing that new readers are still
>>>> discovering Wolfe for the very first time and being instantly enchanted. ?A
>>>> friend of mine (an aspiring writer) who loves Tolkien and China Mieville
>>>> finally, at my persistent insistence, obtained BotNS and posted this to me
>>>> on Facebook just now about what he's read so far:
>>>>
>>>> 'I love the languid, ivy-wrapped prose that Wolfe writes in. I've been
>>>> discovering that this is a style I find myself entranced by when I read it.
>>>> I was not long ago working through Titus Groan and found myself ensconced by
>>>> many of the same elements that I'm loving in Wolfe's writing. Mr. Wolfe
>>>> seems much better at marrying plot and poesy than Mr. Peake, however.
>>>>
>>>> I'm very excited about what waits around the corner. BotNS seems like
>>>> the kind of novel I dream of writing.'
>>>>
>>>> Some pretty apt comments, I thought.
>>>>
>>>> -DOJP
>>>
>>>
>>> Cool!
>>>
>>> BNS has some of the most gorgeous lines I have ever read. There are many
>>> others, but I think most often of the description of lotuses on Gyoll in
>>> CotA immediately after Maxellindis's uncle's talk of what appear to be the
>>> legions of Erebus:
>>>
>>> With that he fell silent, looking out over the nenuphars. We were well
>>> above that part of
>>>
>>> Gyoll opposite the Citadel, but they were still packed more densely than
>>> wildflowers in
>>>
>>> any meadow this side of paradise.
>>>
>>>
>>> This kind of mood/content juxtaposition enraptures me.
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