(urth) Silk is Calde!

[Lane Haygood]

There's always a chance he was being sarcastic.  That doesn't always come
across in print well.

-L.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:57 AM, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com>wrote:

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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.
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> > > Personally, I think that Gene Wolfe is a relatively profound political
> > > philosopher.
> >
> > 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).
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> 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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