(urth) tongue in cheek (?) wolfe profile
Eric Bourland
eb at hwaet.com
Fri Nov 17 07:00:23 PST 2017
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
> <mailto: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.
>>
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>>
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