Hanging Out with the Dream King

maru · 11 Feb 2005, 17:27 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Fri Feb 11 17:27:56 2005
Subject: (urth) Hanging Out with the Dream King
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Could you give some context there Adam?
I'm not quite sure how to take that comment: does it mean he
regrets even a little not making it glaringly obvious the religious
content, and his fringey religious beliefs in particular (I think
I'm justified in saying fringy; I've heard time and again that his Catholic
viewpoints are practically pre-Vatican II. But I haven't gleaned enough
on my own to appraise this view, so if someone wants to correct me, go 
ahead.)
Or should I take it as a barb against the C.S. Lewis type writers?

~Maru

Adam Stephanides wrote:

>A book that just came out, _Hanging Out with the Dream King: Conversations
>with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators_ by Joseph McCabe (pub. by
>Fantagraphics Books) has a six-page interview with Gene Wolfe (and a
>photo!). The interview doesn't confine itself to Gaiman or his collaboration
>with Wolfe (_A Walking Tour of the Shambles_, iirc), but discusses Wolfe's
>own writing. The most interesting thing Wolfe said, to me, was "It seems to
>me that it is wrong to write propaganda that is not clearly propaganda."
>This in response to a question on Wolfe's use of religious themes, iirc.
>
>--Adam
>  
>

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