Perfect Pulp
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 10 May 1999
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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)

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Michael Straight — 10 May 1999, 14:33
  follows, by subject match 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

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