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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Thanks. For me, in Wolfe's books the pages turn really quickly but the sense of missing some of the big picture also mounts steadily.
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Wolfe did work by indirection, misdirection, allegory and other masks. I think this fine essay by Kim Stanley Robinson gets at why this is so:https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1983/01/30/the-urth-and-all-its-glory/5c9884ed-fd8d-468a-a9df-b236f4ac92d7/?utm_term=.09e1363092d0 …
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