Fairies and Wolfe

David Stockhoff · 02 Apr 2012, 17:42 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:42:22 -0400
Subject: (urth) Fairies and Wolfe
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On 4/2/2012 1:30 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>
> --- On Mon, 4/2/12, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
>
>>
>> Exactly my thought(s). BTNS seems soaked in Hellenistic
>> philosophy. I wanted to be cautious on the gnostic aspect
>> here, but it's not far off.
>>
>> I've wondered if Severian's account owes any debt to the
>> memoirs of
>> Marcus Aurelius, which I've never read. Has anyone here?
>>
>>
> A while ago.  eh, they are quoted sometimes directly in the Chrasmological Writings so I'm sure Wolfe has read them, but I don't think they relate much to the actual cosmology of New Sun except insofar as all ancient epistemology might contribute to it.
OTOH, epistemology is practically what BTNS is about. But I wondered if 
we might find Aurelius's personality familiar.

Just downloaded it---will read it soon!

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