# Digest urth.v022.n048 *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 20 Feb 1999* > 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. --- ### Patri10629 *20 Feb 1999, 20:35* Hi, I'm new here. My teacher told me this newsgroup is where to go to delve into serious literary criticism/commentary re: Gene Wolfe--a writer of some merit, I'm told, who transcends the typical SCI-FI. I've not read him yet but I hope to start. And I had hoped to garnish some insight for my senior thesis: "Exceptions To The Rules of Mediocrity in Popular Genres." But what do I find? Pompous summaries of Paul McCartney's old group before Wings. Theological Meditations on Gilligan Island. Heck, I can get that anywhere on the net--Why go here? And another thing: " Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And immortality. That's the last verse to "The Yellow Rose of Texas" not a TV themesong. Don't you people know anything? Newt --- ### Jack Lyons *20 Feb 1999, 17:43 · follows Patri10629* On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 Patri10629 at aol.com wrote: :Hi, I'm new here. Hello Newt! Welcome to the Pet Shop Boys lyrics list. I think your teacher was trolling you, that verse came from Dorothy Parker. RJ --- ### Marc Coleman *23 Feb 1999, 07:03 · follows Jack Lyons* > At 03:35 PM 2/20/99 -0500, you wrote: > Hi, I'm new here. > > My teacher told me this newsgroup is where to go to delve into serious > literary criticism/commentary re: Gene Wolfe--a writer of some merit, I'm > told, who transcends the typical SCI-FI. I've not read him yet but I hope to > start. Start, then!!! marc ---