# Vonnegut *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Oct 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. --- ### Damien Broderick *29 Oct 1999, 01:06* > At 09:59 PM 27/10/99 -0400, Patrick O'Leary wrote: > Read TIMEQUAKE. Look me in the eye and tell me that's > hackwork Wrong charge, admittedly. But it's desperate stuff, Patrick, I reckon, reeking of exhaustion. I feel sorry for the man, whose early and middle work I loved deeply, and still do. This shocking thing happened to me: I read TIMEQUAKE in a borrowed copy. A year later I found it on the library shelf, flipped through, my heart going pitter-pat with anticipation at this new late work I hadn't yet read, lugged it home. Took me a couple of chapter to wake up. Could that have happened with SIRENS or CRADLE? Not even to my weary old brain, I think. Burn-out. Damien Broderick ---