Patrick Halston
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Patrick Halston
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DeMause scholar
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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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November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Gene Wolfe's Death of Dr. Island and Virginia Giuffre: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
[Mature Content] From the genewolfe community on Reddit: Nicholas from Doctor of Death Island and Virginia Giuffre
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October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Life with the Cave Canem, in Gene Wolfe's Fifth Head: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Personally, it wouldn't be such a bad thing if people actually read some Bruno Bettelheim.
September 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Why does Gene Wolfe's WizardKnight's Able "love" Disiri?https://www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/comments/1nnl6vk/why_does_able_love_disiri/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
September 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Sucks to quote post someone and not let them reply, but:

Miller has already gone on the radio and told his supporters to get all Democrats fired, as has Vance, and it's happening.
We aren’t one step away from Stephen Miller going in the radio and telling his supporters to kill all the Democrats, but they want you to think that so you’ll be afraid. This is a propaganda exercise to make them seem more powerful than they are and some of you are dangerously susceptible.
If Vance, Miller, and the FOX talking heads got out there and told their viewers to go full Rwanda 1994, they'd do it. They just think they can extort capitulation without going that far - and judging by elite reaction, they're right.
September 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The best people on earth are in danger of being murdered because they represent full individuation -- even though, all, socialists -- something that so many people read as the selfishness that cost them their mothers' love and favour. Murder them, and mommy might love u again.
September 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I made a couple of insightful comments on Gene Wolfe and female characters in this reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
All will be made to fit our fantasy needs. If the facts aren't congruent, they will be elided or ignored. DeMause:
September 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Gene Wolfe is our Charlotte Brontë: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
August 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Conversation expands concerning Gene Wolfe and Jordan Carroll's Speculative Whiteness: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Gene Wolfe and Jordan Carroll's Speculative Whiteness: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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August 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Quick thoughts on ostensible appetite-to-vow sequence in Gene Wolfe's Land Across: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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August 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Correction @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social

"STARVED TO DEATH BY ISRAEL"
August 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Blurring. Before the wall and after the wall, in Gene Wolfe's New Sun: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Varieties of dangerous women, right after Severian leaves Nexus: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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August 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Some nice words for Piers Anthony's Xanth: www.reddit.com/r/printSF/co...
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August 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Gene Wolfe's depiction of Silk's crimes in Long Sun and Short Sun: open.substack.com/pub/patrickm...
Silk's crimes
Here's some oft the crimes Silk commits in Long Sun and Short Sun. SHORT SUN SPOILERS
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July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Gene Wolfe's Ziggurat as a pre-trial, where wife who accuses her husband of sexually abusing her girls, is revealed as a manipulative money-chaser: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Gene Wolfe's restaging of divorce trials in Memorare and Borrowed Man but where the husband is victorious and the wife gets shamed: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
On why you don't have to be a father to have a say on Horn and Sinew's relationship in Gene Wolfe's Short Sun: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
OBW - voice/identity
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July 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Speculation on why Gene Wolfe made Sinew the ungrateful child: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM