Wolfe filk from Wolfe folk
The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 26 Feb 2002
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Michael Andre-Driussi — 26 Feb 2002, 19:00

> > Blattid, he quoted Nutria and wrote:
> > 2. I wrote Wolfe a decade ago a list of questions, including what kinds
> > of music he likes best ... He replied that he favors filk, and that was
> > his hobby music. So, SF all the way when it comes to old Gene!

> Now, that may be the single scariest thing about GW I have ever heard.
> Is he also a Sherman-Yankovic fan, we must wonder?

I hardly need to mention it, but gee.  And we have such proven talent
around here--alga's paean to Cordwainer Smith "Miyameefla" (sung to tune of
"Mona Lisa") springs to mind.  I bet the filk would brew, bubble, and flow.

=mantis=

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 26 Feb 2002, 19:08
  follows, by subject match Michael Andre-Driussi

My dear Mantis,

Actually, Wolfe's work doesn't in general seem all that amenable to 
filkification, but really that should be perceived as a challenge. 

If nothing else, I'm amazed that nobody has yet written anything using 
the obvious natural pun (like unto Yankovic's "this here Anakin guy") 
"the dawning of the Age of Severian." But I don't think I will.

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Michael Andre-Driussi — 26 Feb 2002, 21:50
  follows, by subject match Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

> Blattid wrote:
> If nothing else, I'm amazed that nobody has yet written anything using
> the obvious natural pun (like unto Yankovic's "this here Anakin guy")
> "the dawning of the Age of Severian." But I don't think I will.

My thoughts were more toward using old folk songs. Turning "Greensleeves"
into something like:

"Alas, Thecla, you do me slight
Your final friend, your last boy-slave
When I have loved you from first sight
And will love you beyond your grave.

Chatelaine of Matachin
Chatelaine of my heart bright
Chatelaine of traitor kin
Escape with my shiny knife."


=mantis=

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