(urth) Wolfe in decline?

[brunians at brunians.org]

Although I question it sometimes, I am mostly still going with the theory
that Gene has deliberately written a book which appears on the surface to
be a bad pulp story but has more going on beneath the surface.

In the beginning of Chapter Seven, Gideon is soliliquizing about how much
he loves Cassie and how important she is to him, and how he will always
love her. This is all, in the light of how he behaves later, total
bullshit.

So what is going on here? Gideon is doing magick: he is programming
himself to believe certain things which he does not actually believe, but
which he must appear to believe to that the daemon that he has evoked so
that that daemon will behave in the ways he wants her to behave.






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> At 18:31 14/04/2009, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
>>I also then thought that I would never even have
>>considered such a baroque interpretation in a work by another writer
>>(and would have indeed set the book down long before finishing it).
>>That kind of reaction, if shared by anyone here at all, is what I'm
>>particularly interested in hearing about.
>
>
> I had this reaction with AEG: the feeling "But this is Wolfe! Surely
> there must be more to it than this!" Particularly as it had been
> billed on Lovecraftian-horror elements which didn't really appear to
> be present in any significant way.
>
> There are quite a few of the earlier works that I didn't fully 'get'
> at the first time of reading, so that bred in me the suspicion that
> if I didn't make much of a work, there probably was something clever
> going on that I hadn't picked up on. But those are recognizable by
> the "ah, of course" sensation when you do eventually spot it, or see
> it explained by someone else. I have had no such sensation yet with AEG.
>
> best wishes,
>
> Mo
>
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