Yes, so many truly wonderful lines and passages. I remember loving the really robust mountainous language at the beginning of SotL, starting with the sentence: 'Thrax is a crooked dagger entering the heart of the mountains.'<div>
<br></div><div>You know, I don't think I've ever seen Wolfe's writing (as in style or tone or texture of prose, etc.) discussed on this list.<div><br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:58 AM, David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/18/2011 7:59 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:<br>
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Thought people here might enjoy seeing that new readers are still discovering Wolfe for the very first time and being instantly enchanted. A friend of mine (an aspiring writer) who loves Tolkien and China Mieville finally, at my persistent insistence, obtained BotNS and posted this to me on Facebook just now about what he's read so far:<br>
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'I love the languid, ivy-wrapped prose that Wolfe writes in. I've been discovering that this is a style I find myself entranced by when I read it. I was not long ago working through Titus Groan and found myself ensconced by many of the same elements that I'm loving in Wolfe's writing. Mr. Wolfe seems much better at marrying plot and poesy than Mr. Peake, however.<br>
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I'm very excited about what waits around the corner. BotNS seems like the kind of novel I dream of writing.'<br>
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Some pretty apt comments, I thought.<br>
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-DOJP<br>
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Cool!<br>
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BNS has some of the most gorgeous lines I have ever read. There are many others, but I think most often of the description of lotuses on Gyoll in CotA immediately after Maxellindis's uncle's talk of what appear to be the legions of Erebus:<br>
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With that he fell silent, looking out over the nenuphars. We were well above that part of<br>
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Gyoll opposite the Citadel, but they were still packed more densely than wildflowers in<br>
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any meadow this side of paradise.<br>
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This kind of mood/content juxtaposition enraptures me.<br>
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