Delurk + Comment

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From: stilskin at sff.net
Subject: (whorl) Delurk + Comment
Date: 3 Aug 2000 06:43:57
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Hi all!

I've enjoyed lurking about for the last few months and reading everyone's t=
ake on this supremely fascinating and frustrating writer!

Regarding a comment by Emrys:

>In fact, I think that OBW and IGJ can be seen as=20
>therapy ...

I recently saw Wolfe at Readercon on a panel about writing as therapy.  He =
had some interesting if generalized things to say, the most memorable of wh=
ich was that he preferred to "stay down in the basement with the demons" ra=
ther than seek some sort of therapeutic "cure" (whatever that would entail;=
 I don't mean to speculate) through his writing.  I would speculate, howeve=
r, that for Wolfe the act of writing has less to do with therapy (in its de=
graded contemporary sense) and more with a spiritual struggle towards an un=
derstanding and communication of religious faith.

Anyway, I'm glad of those demons in the basement, and hope he doesn't exorc=
ise them any time soon!

Falcon (if it's not taken, that is!)

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