# Perfect Pulp *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 10 May 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. --- ### David_Lebling *10 May 1999, 10:12* William Ansley suggests that every now and then, like the unwatched fall of a sparrow, Wolfe makes a mistake. Well, he's actually admitted to one, on this very list. When we got to ask him impertinent questions about the Long Sun books, he admitted that a mysterious appearance of (hmm, let me think here...) Maytera Marble somewhere she wasn't, near the end of _Exodus_, was just an error. I remember this, however imperfectly, because I asked the question. So we can rest assured that even Jove nods. It does bring up the possibility of a "pulpification" reading of Wolfe's works. For example, Severian's memory really is perfect, but Wolfe's isn't. All the talk we hear about multiple drafts is just publicity; he races through each book like the early-career Silverberg, and lets the errors fall where they may. No doubt he takes long vacations between each one-week period when he writes a trilogy. Dave Lebling (aka vizcacha) Note: This post is _not_ closed captioned for the humor impaired. --- ### Michael Straight *10 May 1999, 14:33 · follows David_Lebling* > On Mon, 10 May 1999 David_Lebling at avid.com wrote: > It does bring up the possibility of a "pulpification" reading of Wolfe's works. > For example, Severian's memory really is perfect, but Wolfe's isn't. All the > talk we hear about multiple drafts is just publicity; he races through each book > like the early-career Silverberg, and lets the errors fall where they may. No > doubt he takes long vacations between each one-week period when he writes a > trilogy. That may be one of the more hair-raising Gene Wolfe short stories I've read yet. -Rostrum ---