Lupiverse(es)

Lee Berman · 15 Mar 2012, 19:30 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:30:07 -0400
Subject: (urth) Lupiverse(es)
Message-ID: <SNT123-W436521E20A737355C9F87ACF5E0 at phx.gbl>

>Daniel Petersen: PLEASE (EVERYONE) LISTEN TO THIS IF NOTHING ELSE:
>I'm worried that some here can only stomach Wolfe if he can be kept
>ambiguous about Catholic orthodoxy and that if it could ever be shown that
>HIS FICTION clearly 'favours' the Church, then they would be out.  I'm
>beginning to wonder if the need to keep that at bay fuels a lot of the
>debate here.

Daniel, there has been much militant atheism found in the media in the past
few years so I understand your concern. I don't think it is has a good basis
when it comes to the Lupiverse though. Consider Peter Wright who, in Attending 
Daedalus, takes a deeply analytical view of BotNS which is entirely secular.
Despite Wright's atheist leanings I don't think he is any less of a Wolfe fan
when forced to acknowledge Wolfe's Christian influences on his writing. I
suspect the same is true for any militant atheists who happen to reside here.

Just as a thought experiment, what would the reverse bring for you? What if
there was, say, a deathbed confession by Wolfe that all his work was meant to
subvert belief in Christ and promote worship of Satan or Dionysus. Would you be
out?

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