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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 class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/17/2017 8:47 AM, Marc Aramini
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAF1072xKzaLf7Ox7CjJPjhQLFpWPzC9MLYmFNp1VmcRFh79S=g@mail.gmail.com">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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