(urth) Silk is Calde!

[John Watkins]

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> > A person can be disaffected at Bush and still be quite concerned as to
> > what an untried liberal Democrat who came up out of what is perhaps the
> > wackiest urban political scene ever invented might think is a good thing
> > to do, with the best will in the world.
> >
> > Personally, I think that Gene Wolfe is a relatively profound political
> > philosopher.
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> I don't. He's said too many silly things in interviews for me to take
> him seriously on these sorts of things, like 'the West doesn't torture
> animals or make fun of minorities and handicapped people because we're
> Christian' (to paraphrase).
>


I wonder about those interviews.  They certainly seem sillier than the
political stuff at work in his novels, particularly Long Sun.  I think
he likes saying things for effect.


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