_The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe

viv · 08 Nov 2005, 02:01 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2005.mbox

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From: viv <darkbloom at ru.com>
Subject: Re: _The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe
Date: 7 Nov 2005 20:01:04 -0600
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On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:53:28 -0500, Andrew Wheeler
<acwheele at optonline.com> wrote:

>As you say, Wolfe is the master of the scene in which things almost
>happen, but don't quite do so. Sometimes (as in "Book of the New Sun" or
>"Book of the Short Sun"), the things that *don't* happen are important
>and clear and stunning. 

Not sure what you're trying to say here.

Do you mean certain events or plot threads never materialize the way
we anticipate or that they "occur" off-stage, behind the main
narrative, like a puppeteer's hand movements, and we must therefore
infer them?

An example perhaps would be edifying...

viv

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