_The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe

Steve Simmons · 07 Nov 2005, 19:00 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2005.mbox

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From: Steve Simmons <scs at not.di.these.org.words>
Subject: Re: _The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:00:50 GMT
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Wayne <throopw at sheol.org> wrote on 11/05/05 at 19:06:

>:: What is it about Wolfe that fails to spark controversy? 

>: A lurking fear that one has failed to Get It?

> I don't have that fear at all.  I *know* I don't get it.

For some reason, people who don't get Wolfe seem to realize that there's
something in there that they just didn't get.  Most other authors that
people don't get they don't get that they don't get.
-- 
Realize that life is a situation comedy that will never be canceled.  A
laugh track has been provided, and the reason why we are put in the
material world is to get more material. 
     From "Swami Beyondananda's Guidelines for Enlightenment"

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