The Snootiness of Gene Wolfe's fans

Ryan Klippenstine · 02 Mar 2004, 02:38 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2004.mbox

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From: Ryan Klippenstine <ryank at cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: The Snootiness of Gene Wolfe's fans
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:38:55 -0500
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On 1 Mar 2004 15:47:34 -0500, wdstarr at panix.com (William December
Starr) wrote:
>
>> I'm not a tremendous Wolfe fan, but I think there's something fine
>> and pulpy about duelling with poisonous hypnotic flowers, or
>> beaches so old that their sand is all specs of broken glass, or (a
>> bit more subtly) people living out their lives in a palace waiting
>> room.
>
>Huh.  I thought that that last one was probably the _least_ subtle,
>most in-your-face farcical suspension-of-disbelief breaker in the
>whole Book of the New Sun series.

Oh, come now, there's no way that's worse than the Ascian "language."
And as for subtle, how about Typhon and Piaton? I wonder what *that*
could be about?

-- 
Ryan Klippenstine

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