# Wolfe essay in Lafferty book. *The Urth list — 2 messages, 1 voices, 14 Apr 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. --- ### Stephen Taylor *14 Apr 1999, 04:16* My first posting to the list and it's a rather tangential one... I just snapped up two more R.A. Lafferty books to add to my fairly obsessive Lafferty collection, and as I took them back to the office I noticed that one of them - _East of Laughter_ has an essay by Gene Wolfe, _Scribbling Giant_ ``` ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Taylor steve at afs.net.au Applied Financial Services Phone: +61 3 9670 0233 Fax: +61 3 9670 5018 ``` --- ### Stephen Taylor *14 Apr 1999, 04:22 · follows Stephen Taylor* [Pardon the initial mangled version of this message.] My first posting to the list and it's a rather tangential one... I just snapped up two more R.A. Lafferty books to add to my fairly obsessive Lafferty collection, and as I took them back to the office I noticed that one of them - _East of Laughter_ has an essay by Gene Wolfe, _Scribbling Giant_ in the first 260 copies printed. Needless to say, my copy is not amongst that 260. Has anyone read the essay in question? Any comments? Steve ``` ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Taylor steve at afs.net.au Applied Financial Services Phone: +61 3 9670 0233 Fax: +61 3 9670 5018 ``` ---