<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">nice! It's actually a good idea to have a list like this, although I'd approach it a little differently, trying to emphasize the organizing principle. I'd make #1 <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; ">Gothic space opera/mythologizing of all science fiction cliches known to man</span><div><br></div><div>Of course, there is an autobiographical aspect to this one as well, since Wolfe grew up on pulp. But I suspect it is #6 that would contain "Wolfe's conversion to Catholicism." </div><div><br></div><div>or is that theory not yet accepted?</div><div><br></div><div>And maybe allegory and allusion and referentiality should have purposes: the creation of myth, the creation
of books from other books, etc. Also, I'd add "book as universe/author as God."</div><div><br>--- On <b>Tue, 12/7/10, Lee Berman <i><severiansola@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Lee Berman <severiansola@hotmail.com><br>Subject: (urth) Father Inire Theory<br>To: urth@lists.urth.net<br>Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 2:38 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; ">1. Gothic space opera<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">2. Religious-theological allegory<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">3. Mythological allusion and analog<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color:
initial; ">4. Socio-political allegory (Peter Wright)<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">5. Classic literature references<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">6. Gene Wolfe autobiographical</span></div></blockquote></div></div></td></tr></table>