# Wolfe Reader Scale *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Nov 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### m.driussi *04 Nov 1998, 20:50* Well, okay--another way to do it would be to develop a "Reader Scale." Carrying on from vizcacha's vector, re commentators on PEACE tending to become mantic or borskian, grafted onto an easy five stage scale. From super-cautious to wildly speculative: 1--manlove? (So cautious that one denies Dorcas as resurrected and/or grandmother) 2--gordon? 3--vizcacha, the paragon of balance (alas, too often left unexpressed; i.e., a silent majority of unexamined assumptions)? 4--mantic (hi there ) 5--borski But where to put John Clute? Is =he= the balance? Or is Joan Gordon the balance? Gordon is certainly more conservative in her reading than Clute is--no Autarch Catherine for her! (Then again, Gordon doesn't reveal [to the best of my limited knowledge] that Number Five's name is "Gene Wolfe," a juicy tip we owe to Clute.) And what about Peter Wright? =mantis= ---