The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客

One of the Gene Wolfe podcasts made the point that at the time the effect of this vocabulary was much stronger simply due to the difficulty of looking it up; never mind not having a cell phone, even your dictionary likely wouldn't have had half of them unless you had one of those 10 volume ones

Beautiful. Now here's the complete passage that I constructed with your help. For extra points, can you guess the author I'm parodying? [passage from the tweet above] That voice is doing a very recognizable trick: measured, retrospective puzzlement, where the narrator calmly admits partial comprehension and then quietly undercuts his own interpretation. The cadence is the giveaway. This feels like a parody of Gene Wolfe, especially the narrative voice of Severian in The Book of the New Sun. A few fingerprints: The formula “I understood less than half … but at the time it seemed clear.” Wolfe constantly has Severian realize later that earlier events had meanings he missed. The narrator’s retrospective uncertainty — “perhaps it was not there at the time.” Wolfe loves that ambiguity between real meaning and later interpretation. Ecclesiastical / quasi-classical titles like Archimandrite feel perfectly at home in Wolfe’s baroque future-Latin setting. The slightly elevated but oddly precise vocabulary (peragrate, pomerium) matches Wolfe’s habit of using rare words as if they were ordinary. The rhythm in particular echoes Wolfe passages like: I did not understand this then, though it seems plain to me now… or At the time I believed… yet later I saw that… Your last sentence is especially Wolfean: the narrator simultaneously claims new insight and doubts that the insight was ever intended. If one wanted to make it even more Wolfe-like, you could add one tiny turn of self-correction: “I believe now that I understood less than half of this dialogue; yet at the time of my first interview with the Archimandrite his meaning seemed clear enough. Only now, as I peragrate the pomerium, does a deeper sense occur to me—though it may be that it was never there.”

It's a very strange world we live in. Language model identifies that paragraph as Wolfe, suggests improvement:

"“I believe now that I understood less than half of this dialogue; yet at the time of my first interview with the Archimandrite his meaning seemed clear enough. ... &c"

The naming puns for it are well outside my range to speak publicly, but I had the thought of a Jewish response/critique of Book of the New Sun that largely uses the same/very similar framing and structure and dang that sounds like it'd be a very cool read.

it's like someone approaching Ralph Bakshi's WIZARDS with the seriousness and mastery of James Joyce. pretty much the ideal project, imo.

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Five Books: The Book of the New Sun Series The Book of the New Sun is a series by American novelist Gene Wolfe (1931-2019). It was recommended as one of the best sci-fi series in our interview with novelist Ada Palmer.

The Book of the New Sun is a series by American novelist Gene Wolfe (1931-2019). It was recommended as one of the best sci-fi series in our interview with novelist Ada Palmer.
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Hmm… I own two of these4 covers

I moved to a new house (bigger) and I’m still grappling with the fact that my books no longer fit in one room.

Brad Pitt plays me.
“I’m coming for ya Severian! I’ve got your spy shit!”

Cyrus tabby the cat on a red blanket surrounded by book shelves

The Cat and the Library
#cat #books

Severian meanders above town, has some kinda sad, kinda weird stuff happen, and can't really decide how he feels about it.
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I’m still looking for the red and magenta colors.
I have the indigo and green first editions (by Gene Wolfe & Neil Gaiman and NG & GW), brown (given out at the 2012 Fuller Award), and the orange. Two left to find.

It holds up!

wife showed me the intro to pokopia. why is no one talking about how sad it is. it's a post-apocolypse dying world where everything is just an imitation of what once was of society. it's like BOTNS for pokemon

I already know the devs are Gene Wolfe-pilled bc of their @nocartridge.bsky.social episode, but if I didn't, is there any more 👁️ vocab word than "chiliad"

Ralph Bakshi's Book of the New Sun

Had a dream last night that I was in charge of directing a radio version of book of the new sun and was doing the alzabo section...not to toot dream me's horn but it turned out sooooo good

The Book of the New Sun - Wikipedia

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

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Gift from my daughter

Denis Villeneuve's Book of the New Sun

I would watch the shit out of Sean Baker's WAR OF THE BUTTONS

But if we're allowed to raise the dead to adapt classics from after their time, Fritz Lang's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN would be incredible

As batatas Pringles na ficção de Gene Wolfe (e de quem mais podia ser?).

I can’t remember on which board this edited passage was first posted but it was beautifully done.

Movie poster for the Lucrecia Martel film Zama, featuring a colonial bureaucrat and cutlass collaged disjointedly above a palm tree

Shot from the film, featuring horsemen in an open field with palm trees

If you‘ve never seen Zama, it‘s probably the closest we’ll ever get to a Gene Wolfe film adaptation