I've heard that and I've been on my way to checking him out for some time. Still planning to do so. Thanks for the reminding recommendation.<div><br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Rebecca Bushong-Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rebeccabt01@gmail.com">rebeccabt01@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm usually far too intimidated by this august group to include anything, but if you are a Lafferty fan you might also enjoy Howard Waldrop. Mostly short stories, quirky and some quite funny. I believe he and Gene are friends.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Marc Aramini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com" target="_blank">marcaramini@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><br>At this point I'm reminded of Neal Stephenson as well. The Baroque Cycle is rather Wolfean and Powersian, in my opinion, infodumps aside.<br><br>I believe there's a big difference between the people who like Wolfe (and Lewis, Tolkien, and some others) largely because their work is heavily influenced by their Catholicism, and those who like Wolfe because of his pre-post-modern-ish (to coin a phrase) sensibility. I'm one of the latter, although the Catholicism works fine for me as a background.<br>
<br>Dave Lebling</div>
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</div><div>I am sure the Catholicism contributes to the baroque spirituality that I so admire - though I find him almost entirely (but VERY cryptically and elusively) modernist in outlook. (I fervently believe in almost every case there IS a bottom to get to - something I would abandon in an author who I felt was being deliberately "postmodern").</div>
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<div>I love his prose and his creations and his mysteries, and I tell myself it is for that reason that I rank him at the pinnacle of all artists, in this or any time, and that everything that comes after will surely be a pale shadow, as everything that came before was just a fleeting glimpse of promise. Yet it might very well be that my basic spiritual but eccentric and pragmatic "ends justify the means" conservatism is what really makes me put him far above the other authors I admire - that the arguments of his characters speak to me in particular. </div>
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