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[Daniel Petersen]

Yeah, that part's brilliant, Dan'l.

Oh and now I remember the line well into SotT (Chapter XVI 'The Rag Shop')
that really awoke me to the fact I was reading a great writer:

'If there are layers of reality beneath the reality we see, even as there
are layers of history beneath the ground we walk upon, then in one of those
more profound realities, Dr. Talos's face was a fox's mask on a wall, and I
marveled to see it turn and bend now toward the woman, achieving by those
motions, which made expression and thought appear to lay across it with the
shadows of the nose and brows, an amazing and realistic appearance of
vivacity.  "Would you refuse it?" he asked again, and I shook myself as
though waking.'

I remember physically shuddering at the moment of the fox mask bending
toward the woman.  I immediately had my wife, who happened to be sitting
next to me, read the paragraph and she felt the same.

-DOJP

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have many favorite passages in tBotNS, all of which totally blow me
> away with the beauty of the language.
>
> My favorite, however, must be the passage in _Citadel_ where he
> realizes that the Claw was just the thorn of a rosebush, ending with
> the line about throwing his boots into the sea so that he might not
> walk shod on holy land.
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Antonin Scriabin
> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wolfe's writing is very beautiful, and he uses such vivid, unique
> language.
> > I haven't memorized the passage, but the part in The Shadow of the
> Torturer
> > where Ultan is describing the different books in the library; wonderful!
> > That together with the nearby Book of Gold passage really made me fall in
> > love with that book in particular and Wolfe in general.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Daniel Petersen
> > <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes, so many truly wonderful lines and passages.  I remember loving the
> >> really robust mountainous language at the beginning of SotL, starting
> with
> >> the sentence:  'Thrax is a crooked dagger entering the heart of the
> >> mountains.'
> >>
> >> You know, I don't think I've ever seen Wolfe's writing (as in style or
> >> tone or texture of prose, etc.) discussed on this list.
> >>
> >> -DOJP
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:58 AM, David Stockhoff <
> dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 12/18/2011 7:59 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Thought people here might enjoy seeing that new readers are still
> >>>> discovering Wolfe for the very first time and being instantly
> enchanted.  A
> >>>> friend of mine (an aspiring writer) who loves Tolkien and China
> Mieville
> >>>> finally, at my persistent insistence, obtained BotNS and posted this
> to me
> >>>> on Facebook just now about what he's read so far:
> >>>>
> >>>> 'I love the languid, ivy-wrapped prose that Wolfe writes in. I've been
> >>>> discovering that this is a style I find myself entranced by when I
> read it.
> >>>> I was not long ago working through Titus Groan and found myself
> ensconced by
> >>>> many of the same elements that I'm loving in Wolfe's writing. Mr.
> Wolfe
> >>>> seems much better at marrying plot and poesy than Mr. Peake, however.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm very excited about what waits around the corner. BotNS seems like
> >>>> the kind of novel I dream of writing.'
> >>>>
> >>>> Some pretty apt comments, I thought.
> >>>>
> >>>> -DOJP
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cool!
> >>>
> >>> BNS has some of the most gorgeous lines I have ever read. There are
> many
> >>> others, but I think most often of the description of lotuses on Gyoll
> in
> >>> CotA immediately after Maxellindis's uncle's talk of what appear to be
> the
> >>> legions of Erebus:
> >>>
> >>> With that he fell silent, looking out over the nenuphars. We were well
> >>> above that part of
> >>>
> >>> Gyoll opposite the Citadel, but they were still packed more densely
> than
> >>> wildflowers in
> >>>
> >>> any meadow this side of paradise.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This kind of mood/content juxtaposition enraptures me.
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