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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Agreed. Mieville made it pretty
clear.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mieville is good, though currently a little
over-rated, I think. I read _Perdido Street Station_ and enjoyed it,
but am in no great rush to read the sequels. I also enjoyed
_The City and the City_ which is a pretty interesting take on a bizarre
Borgesian world set on present day Earth, with no supernatural
element.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=matthew.keeley.1@gmail.com
href="mailto:matthew.keeley.1@gmail.com">Matthew Keeley</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=urth@lists.urth.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 20, 2010 2:40
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: (urth) Gene Wolfe is for
Socialists</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV>My politics are very far from
Mieville's, though I admired the one Mieville story I've read so far. And
Mieville admits that not all the writers he cites are anywhere near socialist,
or even on the left. Consider his comments on Keith Roberts' Pavane:
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Matthew Knight <SPAN
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href="mailto:jacobeiserman@gmail.com">jacobeiserman@gmail.com</A>></SPAN>
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<DIV>I'm with Pedro on this one. I think the list's author is finding
something of value in 5HOC when viewed through a socialist lens, despite
recognizing vast differences between Wolfe's perspective and his own.
Here's my own sweeping generalization that is likely logically unprovable:
most good art can be appreciated from a variety of angles, insofar as the
art reflects something true about life and the angles from which the art is
viewed are able to discern some kind of truth, even if distorted.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Pedro Pereira <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:domus_artemis@hotmail.com"
target=_blank>domus_artemis@hotmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>I don't see why is it wishful thinking on the part of the blog author
(it's not even the author, this is a list by Mielville for the
blog site). Mielville didn't claim Wolfe was Socialist or
that his work was socialist bent. What he says is
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