(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

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It's not a happy ending. That wouldn't be appropriate.

It is a glorious ending.




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> Yes, that's a good one. Remind me how it ends ...
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> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:19:50 -0400 (EDT)
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> Subject: Re: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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> Or that one with the near-future woods bum who needs a new hunting rifle
> and goes on a reality show that puts tv cameras in his head and a
> $100,000, which the Feds want, of course. He has a bit of a head start and
> has to find his black market weapons dealer and get back away to the woods
> with the cops after him.
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> I think that one is pretty explicit. I love the very last bit: classic
> Wolfe.
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>> > Well, very few criminal shootings are from a distance or with a rifle
>> > (same thing). So it's always going to be point-blank shootings (of
>> > strangers or not) vs stabbings or beatings (of strangers or not).
>> > Stabbings are usually motivated by rage, because you get the victim's
>> > blood all over you. You can casually shoot the storekeeper because he
>> > looked at you funny, or shoot him in a panic because you lost your
>> nerve.
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>> > I'd like to actually mention a Gene Wolfe story. The Ziggurat from
>> Strange
>> > Travelers always seemed to me to contain a healthy chunk of Wolfean
>> > psychology/politics. The protagonist hunts, lives alone, harbors some
>> > anger against women, and has to deal with aliens killing his son. If
>> > anyone has a point to prove about Wolfe and guns, look there.
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