# Wolfe Walks *The Urth list — 5 messages, 5 voices, 25 Jul 2003* > 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. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *25 Jul 2003, 18:58* Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention: Gene Wolfe has left the building. Wolfe has left the Odyssey workshop prematurely; his explanation is on the Locus Website. http://www.locusmag.com/2003/Features/Letters07.html --- ### Andrew Bollen *26 Jul 2003, 01:34 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > Blattid wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention: Gene Wolfe has left the > building. > > Wolfe has left the Odyssey workshop prematurely; his explanation is on the > Locus Website. > > http://www.locusmag.com/2003/Features/Letters07.html > > --Blattid Poor GW. That must have been distressing. --- ### matthew.malthouse *28 Jul 2003, 10:19 · follows Andrew Bollen* > On 25/07/2003 19:58:33 Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > Wolfe has left the Odyssey workshop prematurely; his explanation is on > the > Locus Website. > > http://www.locusmag.com/2003/Features/Letters07.html Reading that I cannot help thinking of the Doonesbury cartoon strip's Walden College - "Nothing but A grades". Matthew --- ### James Jordan *29 Jul 2003, 01:51 · follows matthew.malthouse* I just read this. Damn. Here's an elderly gentleman being treated this way by novices, regardless of their age. Gene apologizes to his host. Gentleman all the way. Anybody who knows Gene knows that there could not have been anything harsh, rude, or mean about his comments on their work. I'm not a fiction writer, and so would not try to come to the proposed workshop. But if those of you who are writers want do so something like this to honor Gene's skill and what he has to offer, I'm all for your doing it. Damn, again. This is just appalling. Damn and hell! And there are a lot of other even better God-given words that are appropriate for this situation, but I'll forbear, since this is the internet! I'd better post this before I change my mind. I've gotta clean the vomit off my keyboard. #@$&&$XXXX*** Nutria --- ### Brandon Mason *29 Jul 2003, 02:41 · follows James Jordan* I agree that what the students in the workshop did was more than a little childish. Wolfe's work speaks for itself, and if they didn't want to be evaluated by him then they shouldn't have attended the workshop. You have to wonder what they expected really, a soft pat on the back? I think these people probably thought that they deserved to be there on account of the quality of their manuscripts, I think they should have looked at it as a privelage. ---