<div>There's always a chance he was being sarcastic. That doesn't always come across in print well.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:57 AM, John Watkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.watkins04@gmail.com">john.watkins04@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>><br>> ><br>> > A person can be disaffected at Bush and still be quite concerned as to<br>> > what an untried liberal Democrat who came up out of what is perhaps the<br>
> > wackiest urban political scene ever invented might think is a good thing<br>> > to do, with the best will in the world.<br>> ><br>> > Personally, I think that Gene Wolfe is a relatively profound political<br>
> > philosopher.<br>><br>> I don't. He's said too many silly things in interviews for me to take<br>> him seriously on these sorts of things, like 'the West doesn't torture<br>> animals or make fun of minorities and handicapped people because we're<br>
> Christian' (to paraphrase).<br>><br><br><br></div>I wonder about those interviews. They certainly seem sillier than the<br>political stuff at work in his novels, particularly Long Sun. I think<br>he likes saying things for effect.<br>
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