barrington interview

Marc Aramini · 08 Oct 2014, 15:17 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 08:17:42 -0700
Subject: (urth) barrington interview
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Gene was an engineer.  AN ENGINEER.  Engineering is not a soft science.
Angles, physical properties, stress analyses, knowledge of quantifiable
variables, structural integrity which might not be universals but are
rigidly adhered to - just because Wolfe believes in God doesn't mean he
thinks a modern playdough cross section will support a tile roof on our
planet at room temperatures.

As far as your last statement, I have a feeling it is more likely he feels
God is outside the ability of man to circumscribe by any rational or
irrational means and cannot be limited by language (the tale of the cock
and the angel, for example.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Apologies. I didn't mean to imply any particular person in this discussion
> is
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> speaking entirely from emotional motivation..
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> >On the universality of math:
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> I disagree. I find ample evidence to the contrary in his literary work and
> to some degree
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> his interviews. But that's just my opinion.
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> Still, perhaps we can agree that Gene Wolfe believes in God? If so and if
> Gene Wolfe believes
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> in the universality of math, wouldn't that mean the Gene Wolfe believes
> God can be
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> described by a mathematical equation?
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