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>> No.11464042

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPcDBCDF4NQ&t=253s

>> No.11464687

>>11464042
There's nothing quite like a good storyteller, despite being written by one and told by another.

>> No.11464776

>>11464042
This mother fucker literally read five minutes worth of dedications and previous works.

What a mad cunt.

>> No.11464793
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11464793

>the part where the old lady talks about her blown out vagina

>> No.11464817

So was it all a coma dream or what?

>> No.11464963
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11464963

>It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

>> No.11465045

>>11464027
Is this any good? I'm finishing up new sun and it's really good, my library also has the wizard/knight as well as long and short sun.

>> No.11465155

>>11465045
It's a comfy power fantasy that doesn't make very much sense.

>> No.11465564

>>11464817
Spoilers. It is the dream Michael sends to Abel's mother and Ben after his twin Ben absorbs him in the womb, a Jungian dreamscape of a dead child that never got to live who meets all the archetypes of the collective unconscious - the girl he is "all mixed up with" is both the ovum of conception and the dream knowledge of America from his mother. this writeup on it only good for two more weeks.

>> No.11465569

>>11465564 the write up https://pastebin.com/WZ0QHrRv

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>>11464027
The Containment Thread, by anon - >>11464580
Reminder to delete your thread on the way out.

>> No.11466915

>>11465564
w-what the fuck

>> No.11466961
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>>11464027
Wow is it suddenly wrong to put people in their containment threads?
>>11464580

>> No.11467032

Reading it now, so far so good. It's interesting the way Able thinks and tries to reason out problems. He also has autism for arrows

>> No.11467164

>>11466961

Gene Wolfe transcends the fantasy label and is now widely considered to be true literature.

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>>11465564
this sounds like absolute garbage
>>11467164
hilarious, after reading BOTNS I can confirm you are a crayon eating brailet

>> No.11467183

>>11467032
His autism for arrows is his most endearing character trait

>> No.11467187

This was just awful. I got about 100 pages into The Wizard and couldn't take it anymore.

>> No.11467218

>>11467178
Read the writeup

>> No.11467327

>>11467218
marc is that u

>> No.11467476

>>11467187
Felicia Day?

>> No.11468307

>>11467327
You have discovered me. Thought about posting that here for a while but when I happened to see the wk thread thought I would just break my silence.

>> No.11470147

>>11465569
Is this shit canon?

>> No.11470528

>>11470147

The question is not whether it is canon in the LCD court of useless popular opinion but in whether it is TRUE according to Wolfe’s intentions. If anyone can explain the dream sequences (Abel swimming with red and silver fish, getting swallowed up) and the appearance of Abel and the Earl Marshal (and the earl marshal’s twinning in Aelfrice) inside the most low god as well as explain how Ben is Bold at the end and what Kulili with her thread like fingers molding the aelf or even what Bold loses in the pond and regains when Abel heals him they are welcome to.

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>>11470528
I thought Wolfe just really liked water

>> No.11472190

>>11467183
>His autism for arrows is his most endearing character trait
kek

>> No.11473219

>>11465045
Not as good as New Sun. Easier read than New Sun, but has less going on, unless you subscribe to the shit going on down here >>11465564

If you're interested Arthurian, Norse, and Biblical storytelling, you'll enjoy it.

>> No.11473247

>>11465155
It does, though, due to the framing device where the MC must die in this world to bring salvation to his fantasy land.

>> No.11473264

>>11465564
what the fuck

>> No.11473277
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11473277

This is the best thing Wolfe has written.