<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>You should probably put "comedic" in quotes, too....heh<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Gerry Quinn <gerryq@indigo.ie><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, March 9, 2011 11:50:23 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) 'King Rat' and the abuse of women in Gene Wolfe's stories<br></font><br>
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<a rel="nofollow" title="lhaygood@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:lhaygood@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:lhaygood@gmail.com">Lane Haygood</a>
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<div>No, my characters are not like me. I can only imagine what I would be
like as a literary character. A bookish, somewhat awkward lawyer with a
penchant for self-deprecation and sarcasm? Heaven save us from such
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Replace 'lawyer' with 'academic', 'writer' or
'publisher', and you have described the hero of 50% of comedic literary
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">- Gerry Quinn</font></div>
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