<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p>Nor do I. I am merely saying he became less thematically political in fiction after his early efforts.</p>
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<b>From:</b> "António Pedro Marques" <entonio@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sat Jul 28 17:55:18 MST 2012<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: (urth) Predictions Re: The Politics Of Gene Wolfe<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">I don't find 'socialism has taken over the free world' in those predictions. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">No dia 28/07/2012, às 23:31, Marc Aramini <<a href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">marcaramini@yahoo.com</a>> escreveu:</span><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote
type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">He was far far more overtly political in his short stories of the early 70s and in Operation Ares, and most of that stuff was not reprinted. If anything as we get farther away from the bogeyman of socialism actually being the dominant zeitgeist of our time his fiction leaves political obsessions behind for narrative and spiritual preoccupations. Just my two cents.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 7/28/12, Gwern Branwen <i><<a href="mailto:gwern0@gmail.com">gwern0@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><br>From: Gwern Branwen <<a href="mailto:gwern0@gmail.com">gwern0@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Predictions Re: The Politics Of Gene Wolfe<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>Date: Saturday, July 28, 2012, 7:18 AM<br><br>
<div class="plainMail">On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Fernando Gouvea <<a href="http://us.mc1607.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fqgouvea@colby.edu" ymailto="mailto:fqgouvea@colby.edu"><a href="mailto:fqgouvea@colby.edu">fqgouvea@colby.edu</a></a>> wrote:<br>> I'm wondering why you care so much.<br><br>I have a long-standing interest in predictions and what they reveal,<br>which would alone would justify my interest, but besides that...<br><br>I care because I wish one of my favorite authors to be an<br>intellectually respectable author, perhaps along the lines of<br>Chesterton or Buckley or Charles Murray who I also enjoy reading, and<br>it's disappointing to me to see that it's not a few allusions or plot<br>twists that I perhaps was simply misinterpreting or being overly<br>sensitive to.<br><br>And also because people here seem to have a hard time accepting it, so<br>additional data is welcome; witness the previous attempts to explain<br>it all away, or in this thread the
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