(urth) the circus of Dr. Lao

[Gwern Branwen]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr> wrote:
> Did Gene Wolfe ever mention the book called "The circus of Dr. Lao"? It's a
> curious
> book, first published in 1935 by Charles G. Finney. I recently got a second
> edition -
> University of Nebraska Press, 2002. There is curiously many parallels with
> GW writings.

It has certainly come up many times on this list, mostly in _An Evil
Guest_ context IIRC:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22Circus%20of%20Dr%2E%20Lao%22%20site%3Aurth%2Enet

However, I don't know that Wolfe himself has ever mentioned it. (A
quick grep through my incomplete collection of text files doesn't turn
up anything.)

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