(urth) If I already like ...

[Daniel Petersen]

I've heard that and I've been on my way to checking him out for some time.
 Still planning to do so.  Thanks for the reminding recommendation.

-DOJP

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Rebecca Bushong-Taylor <
rebeccabt01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm usually far too intimidated by this august group to include anything,
> but if you are a Lafferty fan you might also enjoy Howard Waldrop.  Mostly
> short stories, quirky and some quite funny.  I believe he and Gene are
> friends.
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 4/17/12, Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com>* wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> At this point I'm reminded of Neal Stephenson as well. The Baroque Cycle
>> is rather Wolfean and Powersian, in my opinion, infodumps aside.
>>
>> I believe there's a big difference between the people who like Wolfe (and
>> Lewis, Tolkien, and some others) largely because their work is heavily
>> influenced by their Catholicism, and those who like Wolfe because of his
>> pre-post-modern-ish (to coin a phrase) sensibility. I'm one of the latter,
>> although the Catholicism works fine for me as a background.
>>
>> Dave Lebling
>>
>>
>> I am sure the Catholicism contributes to the baroque spirituality that I
>> so admire - though I find him almost entirely (but VERY cryptically and
>> elusively) modernist in outlook.  (I fervently believe in almost every case
>> there IS  a bottom to get to - something I would abandon in an author  who
>> I felt was being deliberately "postmodern").
>>
>> I love his prose and his creations and his mysteries, and I tell myself
>> it is for that reason that I rank him at the pinnacle of all artists, in
>> this or any time, and that everything that comes after will surely be a
>> pale shadow, as everything that came before was just a fleeting glimpse of
>> promise.  Yet it might very well be that my basic spiritual but eccentric
>> and pragmatic "ends justify the means" conservatism is what really makes me
>> put him far above the other authors I admire - that the arguments of his
>> characters speak to me in particular.
>>
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