(urth) Gnomism

[brunians at brunians.org]

I can't think of many things I have read which have the same emotional
effect upon me as Severian, Baldanders and Faustus together on the tower
in the rain, and the torchlight procession is coming, and Faustus is the
only one who sees.

The last few paragraphs of Dhalgren, possibly.

It is Gene's perfect take on Borges, in much the same fashion as Lathe of
Heaven is LeGuin's perfect take on Dick.

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> On 7/14/2010 6:32 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> I always suspected Wolfe of deliberately using pulp cliches in BotNS. I
>> had no idea he applied the principle so thoroughly. It almost has the
>> effect of reading about ancient, clever technologies like ballistae and
>> water clocks.
>
> yes, exactly! only more briefly.   IIRC, Lem does a bit of this in his
> CYBERIAD.
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