The Catholic integralist project I support is Gene Wolfe's: a new messiah who cannibalistically absorbs older human traditions and gives humanity a fresh lease on life by re-igniting the dying sun. That's thinking big.
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Lefty RA Lafferty fan and biographer, checking in
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Rereading R. A. Lafferty was quite revelatory. So much of his work stems from his Catholicism, something I missed when I was reading it in my teens and 20s.
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The same is true of Mark Helprin. I heard him talk about it at a reading and he seemed genuinely mystified.
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You have summoned Aramini, rightful heir to Augustus Caesar and Wolfe’s biggest fan ... there is no right or left - simply my fiat. the Christian theodicy in Wolfe is pretty clear - good will eventually come of evil or corrupted things, whether that is the guild or even death
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Every fan of Orson Scott Card's Ender's game series abhors his politics but can see how they show up in the story once it is pointed out.
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