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Whats was the goal and medsage of Gene Wolfes writing?

>> No.20265394

>>20265374
I see him as a traditionalist, a medievalist, in the manner of Tolkien. I have this he wrote on his paper on Tolkien:

>There is one very real sense in which the Dark Ages were the brightest of times, and it is this: that they were times of defined and definite duties and freedoms. The king might rule badly, but everyone agreed as to what good rule was. Not only every earl and baron but every carl and churl knew what an ideal king would say and do. The peasant might behave badly; but the peasant did not expect praise for it, even his own praise. These assertions can be quibbled over endlessly, of course; there are always exceptional persons and exceptional circumstances. Nevertheless they represent a broad truth about Christianized barbarian society as a whole, and arguments that focus on exceptions provide a picture that is fundamentally false, even when the instances on which they are based are real and honestly presented. At a time when few others knew this, and very few others understood its implications, J.R.R.Tolkien both knew and understood, and was able to express that understanding in art, and in time in great art.

I have only read Shadow... but now that I think of it, it seems like an exposition of a vocational society.

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>>20265374
Catholicism GOOD

>> No.20266831

>>20265374
Jesus is Lord

>> No.20266850

>>20265374
Like all great sff authors, a love of adventure and pussy.

>> No.20266887

>>20265374
Moral simplicity enforced by a big vocabulary.

>> No.20268926

I think he had a thing for BIG women

>> No.20269187

>>20265374
To create a pringle in book form, a story that's not straight forward and you can't read it just once.

>> No.20269206

I've never found Wolfe difficult or cryptic, just verbose and vague. The books are pretty easy to understand.

>> No.20269730

>>20265374
The universality of the human spirit

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>>20265374

>> No.20270271

>>20265394
nice effortpost by gene

>> No.20270692

>>20270247
>>20270247
Death to the androgyne autarch.

>> No.20271398

more like Thickla

>> No.20271700

>>20265394
>>20270271
The quasi magical appeal of the dark ages is apparent to any child. The wonder of that time and place that is like the realm of fairy tales, the bridge between ancient history and history shadowed by the phantom of Christianity, is the sole consolation humanity has ever been afforded for that monumental falsehood. It is the cradle in which the faith of the Redeemer was itself miraculously redeemed as something worthy of history the only way it could have been: by the nobility of the racial soul of the White man, who by that unnatural transmutation gave up such a dire portion of himself indeed.

>> No.20272361

>>20271700
das right