From: James Jordan <jbjordan4@home.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Horn Dies
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:51:56 

At 08:50 AM 2/27/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>Just a thought - What do you think about the possibility that Wolfe's work 
>is intended, if not to
>convert people, but at least to make them think more favourably of his own 
>religion?
>
>gerbil

I don't really think so. Long ago I wrote to ask him if he thought of 
himself as a Christian writer, and he wrote back to say that no, he is a 
writer who is a Christian. I don't think "evangelization" is part of his 
intention, though I'm sure he'd be happy if it were part of the result. 
BTW, I also asked him, in the light of *Peace,* if he thought of himself in 
any degree as a Southern writer (a la Walker Percy), and he responded by 
saying he that is more of an urban than a rural writer.

FWIW

Pat. Nut.


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