Quiet around here

Jonathan Laidlow · 18 May 2000, 17:58 · from urth-v0029.mbox · original

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From: "Jonathan Laidlow" <LAIDLOJM at hhs.bham.ac.uk>
Subject: (urth) Quiet around here
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:58:41 GMT
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Hi folks,

[waits for tumbleweed to drift by]

You'e all gone quiet so I'll ask a daft question.

One of the articles in the recent NYRSF Gene Wolfe special, Paul=20
Witcover's essay-review of 'Strange Travelers', suggests that:

"Wolfe - whose futures owe as much to the visions of William Blake=20
as to those of Jack Vance - sees the world as a kind fo relic, a work=20
of art designed by a perfect and loving engineer whose purpose,=20
insofar as human beings can discern it, is to afford us the=20
opportunity to perceive the beauty and meaning with which (and for=20
our benefit), this work of art, the world, has been invested."

It's the Blake idea that I like. Now I don't know much about Blake -=20
have read a bit of Ackroyd's recent bio, read a few of the poems=20
and looked at the colour facsimiles available, so I can't really=20
comment on whether its an accurate statement.

Would anyone like to?

Jonathan
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Jonathan Laidlow
University of Birmingham, UK

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