(urth) Wolfe in decline?

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Wed Apr 15 05:26:29 PDT 2009


> 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.

s/to believe to that the/to believe to the/

a bit of overediting, sorry.





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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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> best wishes,
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>> Mo
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