(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

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Those of you who don't get this frighten me.

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> Of course Wolfe as an exmilitary man at the end of his seventh decade is
> going to have an affinity for weapons.  My father, now seventy and an ex
> marine, always had a gun in the house, took me shooting as a child, taught
> me boxing, and completely embraced the martial
> culture as necessary to protect the people that you love.  I was always
> taught if someone came in the house kill them and put a weapon in their
> hand and if they almost get out the door drag them back in. He doesn't go
> anywhere without his gun and has a concealed weapon permit.
>
> I imagine Wolfe is more devout than my father, but my mother is a devout
> catholic and also exmilitary and weapons are normal, just a part of every
> day life. What is surprising about someone who fought in Korea recognizing
> that weapons are necessary in life when someone else may hurt you?
>
> On Fri Jul 2nd, 2010 12:02 PM PDT Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Jack Smith <jack.smith.1946 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 4.  Guns frequently appear in Wolfe's contemporary American settings,
>>> like
>>> Castleview and Free Live Free.
>>
>>...not to mention very prominently in _The Sorcerer's House_.
>>
>>
>>> Of course, weapons may just be used for dramatic effect.   However, our
>>> author seems to believe that weapons can be used for good as well as
>>> evil.
>>> No blanket condemnation of lethal force and lethal instruments.
>>
>>Weapons as such are morally neutral objects. It is their use that is
>>morally fraught. As the saying goes, "Gods don't kill people;
>>religious fanatics kill people."
>>
>>--
>>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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