tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192894932186742086.post9148771808351779252..comments2023-11-07T22:48:26.520-08:00Comments on GoldenPigsy's Gilded Trough: An Evil Guest by Gene WolfeGoldenPigsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00185768299619712399noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192894932186742086.post-62986880636226250132010-03-01T18:36:45.168-08:002010-03-01T18:36:45.168-08:00Well, I intended that statement about Wolfe's ...Well, I intended that statement about Wolfe's general style as a compliment. Thank you for yours.<br /><br />I really ought to get more involved in the whole Wolfe fandom thing. I take it that people on Urth.net can discuss whatever the hell is going on in AEG without so many wild accusations of racism and misogyny. That at least puts it above the level of much of the criticism that had put me off of reading it for so long.GoldenPigsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00185768299619712399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192894932186742086.post-65865747278576238662010-03-01T15:42:03.366-08:002010-03-01T15:42:03.366-08:00> Either the aesthetic isn’t living up to what ...> Either the aesthetic isn’t living up to what Wolfe wants to say, or Wolfe can’t help but write his novels, even the silly ones, as a reflection of the way he apparently sees everything: a mosaic made out of fragmented classical myths, literary conventions, historicity and the broken, inadequate memories of his own characters -- all arranged in a way that evokes the icons of his intense Catholicism.<br /><br />There are worse ways to write. (Nice sentence, though.)<br /><br />> I can’t say that I want to go back to it any time soon. Part of that is because I can only see the fuzziest of pictures coming out of the way Wolfe has arranged his fragments this time. <br /><br />Agreed. It's kind of like reading _Peace_ without having figured out Weer is a ghost. On Urth.net, more than one reader has expressed frustration that in AEG and "The Tree is My Hat", there is a 'heavily expurgated super-plot' which we just don't know and which frustrates our efforts to understand & interpret the obscure & most meaningful bits of the two works.gwernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18349479103216755952noreply@blogger.com