(urth) tongue in cheek (?) wolfe profile

[Matthew Keeley]

I know many of you have seen this already, but I've written two posts on
Wolfe for Tor.com, with more to come soon:
https://www.tor.com/2017/10/16/approaching-gene-wolfe-with-awe-and-trepidation/

https://www.tor.com/2017/11/09/how-gene-wolfe-starts-a-story-and-where-to-start-reading-his-work/

At no point in the writing did my tongue approach my cheek.

Best,

-Matt


On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl> wrote:

> Don't forget the plastic gloves.
>
> Op 17-11-2017 om 16:00 schreef Eric Bourland:
>
> Yeah. It's not slightly funny. The kid is just angry. I'll turn him over
> my knee. ;-)
>
> On 11/17/2017 9:57 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>
> I think it is supposed to be a joke, but damn it just isn’t funny. Sorry
> to point your attention to something so frustrating ...
>
> On Friday, November 17, 2017, Eric Bourland <eb at hwaet.com> wrote:
>
>> You know, I just wasted ten minutes of my morning to scold this young man
>> in the comments. I do not know if my comment will persist. I might have
>> gotten a little hot under the collar myself.
>>
>> Friend,
>>
>> Wolfe was drafted in his early twenties and sent to war. If you read his
>> Letters Home, you will learn more about that: a collection of loving,
>> reassuring letters that he wrote to his worried mother while he was
>> stationed in Korea. He was barely twenty-one or twenty-two. He's not
>> fascist in the slightest and not even particularly conservative; his
>> reflections, in books like Peace or Free Live Free, on the nation of
>> America are loving of America and its people and the people of the world.
>> If anything, he laments the foolishness of politicians. In books like Home
>> Fires and A Borrowed Man, you can tell he has put a great deal of thought,
>> and a lot of reading, into the results of fascism, nationalism, populism,
>> capitalism. It might come off as small-minded to bring up his very early
>> work in the 1960s; it's not fair or advisable to judge the tone or
>> intention of a writer by his juvenalia. He was drafted by the
>> military-industrial complex of America and sent to war. He shot at people
>> who were shooting at him, and none of them, I imagine, wanted to be there.
>> I am not trying to offend you, but the sarcastic tone of your text comes
>> across as anger, rather than an appreciation. You mostly just sound angry.
>> It's OK to be angry, but I don't know if it's useful to take it out on Gene
>> Wolfe. Yours,
>>
>> Eric Bourland
>>
>> On 11/17/2017 8:47 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>>
>> Here is a kind of strange profile of wolfe at the top ... I suppose it is
>> supposed to be a little tongue in cheek but considering that Wolfe was
>> drafted and both my parents served in the military I didn’t appreciate the
>> “killing babies in Asia” line even if it was a joke ... a bit tone deaf.
>>
>> https://newpoplitinteractive.wordpress.com/
>>
>>
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