yes in my experience the people i'm thinking of (engels, piketty, perry anderson) like those writers *because* of their left wing politics not in spite of them
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Replying to @MattZeitlin @JWMason1
I wouldn't put myself in the same league as Perry Anderson etc but I also really like reading reactionary writers like Gene Wolfe, Anthony Powell and Wyndham Lewis (the all the great modernists, really) in part precisely for their politics.
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Delany’s love of Heinlein fits here.
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Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @UojiM and
I admit to having only read half of Book of the New Sun but I would not have guessed Gene Wolfe is a reactionary
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Replying to @wadingshorebird @UojiM and
Wolfe was too good an artist for it to be obvious -- and in someways Book of the New Sun is as much a internal critique of Catholicism as a work of (very disguised) apologetics.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @wadingshorebird and
And I have a very distinct memory of Wolfe at a con panel saying to the audience, *If you try to tell me poverty is the fault of the poor I will shoot you, and I know how to do that from Korea*. (Words to that effect.) He was a very heterodox conservative.
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Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @UojiM and
He mentioned somewhere that he had been a "National Review conservative" in 1950s and 1960s but changed. So yes, heterodox. His main conservatism was gender but even here there's complexity: Severin is a kind of spiritual hermaphrodite.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @wadingshorebird and
For some reason the mention of gender reminds me there was a dude on the Urth-l list serve in the 90s who wrote a long post about how Dorcas was a vampire. Not metaphorically but literally.
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Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @UojiM and
Fan theories like this are what make me love fandom
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Replying to @wadingshorebird @HeerJeet and
I…may have reacted poorly at the time.
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I usually like the fact that Wolfe generates so many off-the-wall theories -- but this one is just bad.
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He positively invites them by leaving those gaps in his narratives.
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