<div dir="ltr">I know many of you have seen this already, but I've written two posts on Wolfe for Tor.com, with more to come soon:<div><a href="https://www.tor.com/2017/10/16/approaching-gene-wolfe-with-awe-and-trepidation/">https://www.tor.com/2017/10/16/approaching-gene-wolfe-with-awe-and-trepidation/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.tor.com/2017/11/09/how-gene-wolfe-starts-a-story-and-where-to-start-reading-his-work/">https://www.tor.com/2017/11/09/how-gene-wolfe-starts-a-story-and-where-to-start-reading-his-work/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>At no point in the writing did my tongue approach my cheek.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>-Matt</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Ab de Vos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foxyab@casema.nl" target="_blank">foxyab@casema.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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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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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<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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<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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