(urth) Sham War
Dave Lebling
dlebling at hyraxes.com
Mon Aug 9 15:49:30 PDT 2010
Gene Wolfe seems well-acquainted with his religion, and therefore would
have no difficulty answering the question. He answers it himself in
TBotLS. There are many events in life and history which would trouble a
believer, and I doubt that he is unsophisticated enough to be overcome
by them, although he may ruminate now and then on the question of God's
Plan, or on theodicy. TBotNS is, looked at the right way, five volumes
on those topics.
In any case, it is quite clear that the hieros, hierogrammates and even
Tzadziel are not God, although they fill some of the roles God fills in
our universe. The question "who would Tzadziel want to win the Ascian
war?" is not at all equivalent to "who would God want to win the Korean
War?"
-- Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha
Lee Berman wrote:
> You miss my point. I would guess that, as a participant, Gene Wolfe would
> care very deeply about who won the Korean and Cold Wars. The question is,
> who did God want to win?
> Surely the Cold War stalemate and Korean division that dominated most of
> Gene Wolfe's life would be disturbing to him. If ever there was a war God would
> play favorites on it would be the war against the godless Communists. Yet
> they were not vanquished (esp. circa BotNS writing).
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