Well, let me just say that having recently re-read Milton's Paradise Lost (my all-time favourite poem by my all-time favourite poet), I cannot imagine two more opposed doctrines of God than those evinced respectively in PL and Wolfe's Solar Cycle (particularly the Outsider): where Milton professes profusely that the God of his epic is good, just, fair, and perhaps above all loving - yet one finds the actual portrayal of that God to be very unconvincing in all these areas - Wolfe only rather quietly and rarely overtly claims this for the God of the Solar Cycle, yet demonstrates just such attributes very, very convincingly in the palpable pathos of (for example) the Outsider's interactions with Silk and, through Silk as a leader, his interactions with an oppressed people.<div>
<br></div><div>The God of the Long and Short Sun, at least, looks far too implicitly and impressively Trinitarian to be saddled with Milton's monism. IMHO.<br><div><br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Craig Brewer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cnbrewer@yahoo.com">cnbrewer@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span>David: >></span>On second glance the story seems based in some form of Platonism in which all material things strive to reunite with the Ideal.<br>
<br></div><div><span>I said it before, but I like to repeat myself lately. David's idea about Platonism here is almost identical to Milton's "monistic" theology. One day, I need to <br></span></div><div>
write up the similarities I see. Besides, it'd be fun to suggest that a Catholic writer and a violently anti-Catholic writer both had similar theologies...at least in their more imaginative writings.</div><br> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
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