(urth) "Principlesofgovernaaance"Gene Wolfe's Politics

[Adam Thornton]

On Apr 3, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> I don't know how familiar y'all are with the Chinese classics, but
>> when I first read _The Citadel of the Autarch_, I found this to be a
>> chilling parody of both the style and content of Confucian works like
>> _The Great Learning_.
>
> Interesting. I was reminded of Mao's Little Red Book.

I'm pretty sure the intended allusion was the second, but I would be  
greatly surprised if Mao didn't have the first in mind when penning  
the second.

Adam