The Wizard

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 06 Mar 2012, 18:41 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:41:23 -0800
Subject: (urth) The Wizard
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Lee Berman wrote:

... much that I agree with, actually. There is a great deal of
non-Christian allusion in most/all of Wolfe's major work, and often it
is more obvious than the Christian allusions.

But I hold that Wolfe's major method is to create a non-Christian
reality and embed it into a larger reality that is Christian -- as it
were, other realities created by the One God. This is probably
clearest in the Wizard/Knight duo, where the Aesir-analogues are
subservient to the angels, i.e., Michael, who are in turn subservient
to the Most High God, i.e., the Christian God.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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