Gene Wolfe and the antidote to life as just trudging through it all
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Gene Wolfe and the antidote to life as just trudging through it all
I think it’s doing a disservice to Wolfe if you think he wasn’t fully conscious of at least some of the patterns you referenced above in his work.
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Gene Wolfe and the antidote to life as just trudging through it all
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There are Doors: Gene's free trip to England
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There are Doors: Gene's free trip to England
For what it’s worth, There are Doors... the novel he said he was in midst of writing, also features an American (North) who is dispatched to a foreign realm to assassinate someone won’t give love (i.e...
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February 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
There are Doors: Gene's free trip to England
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Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems!
Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
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Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
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Scotiabank’s 1832 Asset Management sells last shares in Israeli military supplier Elbit
Bank faced criticism for investment, including high-profile protests at the Giller Prize
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February 17, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems!
Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
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Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
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Gene Wolfe is Gene Supreme: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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Meet Gene Supreme
How to get out of shame or guilt.
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Meet Gene Supreme
How to get out of shame or guilt.
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Meaning of Agia (Gene Wolfe): open.substack.com/pub/patrickm...
The meaning of Agia
A few thoughts about Agia.
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The AHA rightly condemned the Iraq war in 2007 and the Ukraine invasion in 2022. Blocking a resolution, overwhelmingly supported by members, to express solidarity with Gaza is cowardly at best and special pleading at worst.
January 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The AHA rightly condemned the Iraq war in 2007 and the Ukraine invasion in 2022. Blocking a resolution, overwhelmingly supported by members, to express solidarity with Gaza is cowardly at best and special pleading at worst.
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A 🧵 about academic gatherings & mourning their lost, singular role.
Didn’t see everyone I’d hoped to at #MLA26 in Toronto (sorry!) but I was happy to reconnect with many people, and happier still that the Radical Caucus’ motion regarding the Palestinian exception to academic freedom was passed! 1/
Didn’t see everyone I’d hoped to at #MLA26 in Toronto (sorry!) but I was happy to reconnect with many people, and happier still that the Radical Caucus’ motion regarding the Palestinian exception to academic freedom was passed! 1/
January 11, 2026 at 4:50 AM
A 🧵 about academic gatherings & mourning their lost, singular role.
Didn’t see everyone I’d hoped to at #MLA26 in Toronto (sorry!) but I was happy to reconnect with many people, and happier still that the Radical Caucus’ motion regarding the Palestinian exception to academic freedom was passed! 1/
Didn’t see everyone I’d hoped to at #MLA26 in Toronto (sorry!) but I was happy to reconnect with many people, and happier still that the Radical Caucus’ motion regarding the Palestinian exception to academic freedom was passed! 1/
Meaning of Triskele in Wolfe's New Sun: open.substack.com/pub/patrickm...
The meaning of Triskele in New Sun
Severian’s nursing of Triskelle back to health might remind one of Charlotte Web’s Fern rescuing Wilbur from death (it did for me).
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One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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one trend I've noticed is that gaming franchises like Magic and Warhammer tend to grow less whimsical and allusive over time. there's a growing tendency to make everything a battle-hardened warrior or a scary monster. You start to see less of guys who are just talking trees, etc.
December 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
one trend I've noticed is that gaming franchises like Magic and Warhammer tend to grow less whimsical and allusive over time. there's a growing tendency to make everything a battle-hardened warrior or a scary monster. You start to see less of guys who are just talking trees, etc.
Piers Anthony in the 70s. Maybe he shouldn't have been rejected?
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Piers Anthony in the 70s. Maybe he shouldn't have been rejected?
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A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
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The Law of Shame in Gillian Rose’s Arthuriana and The Green Knight
The final chapter of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work is its most fragmentary. After several chapters in the confessional mode, Rose diverts from the discussion of her life to a series of short reflectio…
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A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
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Life with the Cave Canem, in Gene Wolfe's Fifth Head: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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