(urth) the prime calcula/his citadel and other quotes

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

Marc Aramini wrote:


> And anyway, how cool is it that Wolfe made his conciliator
> figure slaughter humanity and his Satan figure preserve it
> not only in the whorl but possibly contributing his genetic
> stock to one of the few unarguably "good" characters in
> the sun universe?

Tres cool indeed.

> I always felt that Wolfe was at heart a religious allegorist

Um, not so much. Say religious _symbolist_ and I'm right there with
you, but an allegory is a very specific beast with well-defined "A
stands for X, B stands for Y, C stands for Z" etc. correspondences.
That his symbols are so

> slippery and mutable and difficult to pin down in interpretation.

makes them definitevely _not_ allegorical.


> Wolfe shows us over and over how evil ultimately serves good,

Yes.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes