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<p>Yeah. It's not slightly funny. The kid is just angry. I'll turn
him over my knee. ;-)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/17/2017 9:57 AM, Marc Aramini
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cite="mid:CAF1072y8mafz4gTu8965HGfy14DiG9AFtpvvFNjSgvPrYRByqA@mail.gmail.com">I
think it is supposed to be a joke, but damn it just isn’t funny.
Sorry to point your attention to something so frustrating ... <br>
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On Friday, November 17, 2017, Eric Bourland <<a
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<p>You know, I just wasted ten minutes of my morning to scold
this young man in the comments. I do not know if my comment
will persist. I might have gotten a little hot under the
collar myself.<br>
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<p>Friend,<br>
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Wolfe was drafted in his early twenties and sent to war. If
you read his Letters Home, you will learn more about that: a
collection of loving, reassuring letters that he wrote to
his worried mother while he was stationed in Korea. He was
barely twenty-one or twenty-two. He's not fascist in the
slightest and not even particularly conservative; his
reflections, in books like Peace or Free Live Free, on the
nation of America are loving of America and its people and
the people of the world. If anything, he laments the
foolishness of politicians. In books like Home Fires and A
Borrowed Man, you can tell he has put a great deal of
thought, and a lot of reading, into the results of fascism,
nationalism, populism, capitalism. It might come off as
small-minded to bring up his very early work in the 1960s;
it's not fair or advisable to judge the tone or intention of
a writer by his juvenalia. He was drafted by the
military-industrial complex of America and sent to war. He
shot at people who were shooting at him, and none of them, I
imagine, wanted to be there. I am not trying to offend you,
but the sarcastic tone of your text comes across as anger,
rather than an appreciation. You mostly just sound angry.
It's OK to be angry, but I don't know if it's useful to take
it out on Gene Wolfe. Yours,<br>
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Eric Bourland<br>
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<div>On 11/17/2017 8:47 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Here is a kind of strange profile of
wolfe at the top ... I suppose it is supposed to be a little
tongue in cheek but considering that Wolfe was drafted and
both my parents served in the military I didn’t appreciate
the “killing babies in Asia” line even if it was a joke ...
a bit tone deaf.
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