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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019

      1. A few Good Friday thoughts on a great writer who died this week, Gene Wolfe. Never read Gene Wolfe? You're still in his debt if you've ever enjoyed Pringles stacked potato chips. He helped invent those.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019

      2. That Wolfe (1931-2019) died a week before Easter and a half-day before Notre-Dame burned is a fact perhaps over-rich with meaning. He was a Catholic convert whose masterwork, The Book of the New Sun, has one of its central images a burning cathedral.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019

      3. The immediate impetus to Wolfe's conversion was his marriage to Rosemary Dietsch in 1956 but the peace he found in the church (and indeed in his marriage) is also connected to his traumatic military service during the Korean war, where he experienced & witnessed horror.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019

      4. Korea, so forgotten in popular memory, was horrific beyond belief. 20% of the North Korean population was killed, making it one of the most lethal wars in human history. Wolfe was in the thick of battle witnessing some fearful reprisals.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019

      5. Wolfe came back from Korea, in his own words, "a mess" -- prone to nightmares and quick to drop to the floor when he heard a load noise. Much of his work is about the hidden trauma of war, hidden because society doesn't want to talk about.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019

      6. Can those who have committed horrific acts be redeemed? That's the question The Book of the New Sun, whose narrator is a torturer, takes up. It provides no easy answers.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019

      7. The philosophical questions Wolfe took up are only interesting, of course, because of his literary prowess. He was an amazing writer, who somehow synthesized the plots of pulp fiction (aliens & man-apes) with a Proustian tact & sensitivity. Le Guin called him "our Melville."

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019

      8. Wolfe's day job for many years was as an engineer for Proctor and Gambles, where he helped develop the Pringle's stacked chip. Amazingly, he also looked like Mr. Pringle.pic.twitter.com/sASRhWo9LW

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019

      9. Anyways, here are my deeper reflections on the life and work of Gene Wolfe (RIP). Perhaps of interest to anyone who cares about Catholicism and/or science fiction. @ebruenig @michaelbd @DouthatNYT @MichaelSwanwick @neilhimself @pnh @EllenDatlowhttps://newrepublic.com/article/153615/gene-wolfe-proust-science-fiction …

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        2. Matthew Smith‏Verified account @MatthewSmithVT 19 Apr 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ebruenig and

          Almost dismayed I haven't heard of him. Adding the book to the ever-growing pile, thanks for the recommendation.

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        3. Justin Scott‏ @Agasgani 19 Apr 2019
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          Read, let it gestate, then re-read. But don't listen to me; listen to Neil Gaiman: https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2007/gwng0704.htm …

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        1. 𝔏𝔞 ℭ𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔞 ℭ𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔞  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @CharlySloane 19 Apr 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ebruenig and

          Hee hee... as I was reading that I though "Catholicism and science fiction? You mean Liz Bruenig?" And sure enough the first person you tagged...

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        1. Kevin Aiello‏ @KevinAiello 19 Apr 2019
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          Thanks, Jeet, for this informative (and enthusiastic) appraisal of Wolfe's work.

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        2. Matt Keeley‏ @mattkeeley 19 Apr 2019
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          I’m guessing you know this, but he was a great proponent of Avram Davidson’s writing, as was another of your favorites, Guy Davenport.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Apr 2019
          Replying to @mattkeeley

          Yes, I'm hoping someone publishes the Davenport/Davidson correspondence one day

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        1. A cavalcade of anger and fear‏ @ClemUhhh 19 Apr 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ebruenig and

          This is a very good article. I think that The Book Of The Long Sun is better (and more important to Wolfe) than the New Sun, but then I also think that Gravity's Rainbow is better (and more important to Pynchon) than V.

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        1. Johanna K‏ @HauntingLetters 19 Apr 2019
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          Added on my list. Thank you!

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        1. David M‏ @ComradeDoom1 19 Apr 2019
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          I started rereading Book of the New Sun in honor of his passing. The first 80 pages (up until Thecla’s [spoiler]) might be the greatest opening in American literature.

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        1. Servant of the Sacred Fire‏ @RevAndyKarlson 19 Apr 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ebruenig and

          Regarding Catholicism and SF, I wonder if you've read any Tim Powers, whose urban horror/secret history novels are deeply Catholic and deeply weird.

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