(urth) "Principlesofgovernaaance"Gene Wolfe's Politics

[Gwern Branwen]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> 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.

Well, I've never actually read his Little Red Book. Perhaps if I had, I'd've found it a closer match,

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gwern
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