# the sound of one hand laughing *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 21 Apr 2002* > 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *21 Apr 2002, 16:46* Regarding a timeline for 5HC that puts humans originating from another star > system on Gondwanaland, Tony Ellis wrote: > If there's any actual evidence in 5HC to back up this theory I'm genuinely > interested to hear it - but I can't think of any. Adam Stephanides, re-reading the Gene Wolfe interview (1992), quotes and responds: >> GW: No. I thought of it as a long past universe. Something that we are >> repeating rather than something that we are. > Wolfe said this? I'm quite surprised, even shocked. I'm pretty much of an > intentionalist, but (without having reread all the books) this strikes me as > a pointless complication with no textual warrant. =mantis= SIRIUS FICTION booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley 36 Lexicons left until OP! http://www.siriusfiction.com/ --- ### Tony Ellis *22 Apr 2002, 10:06 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* Hmm. It's not clear what point is being made here, but I'm sure it can't be that we should be satisfied with explanations of Wolfe's stories that are in no way backed-up by the stories themselves. :-) ---