# DD's and Hamlet's Mill *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Aug 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. --- ### James Wynn *09 Aug 2003, 17:37* Don, My false modesty must be working over time for you have surely turned my head. :-D >> Josh said: >> I've found that most people do better if they work up to 'Hamlet's >> Mill'. Well, one would have to wade through a library to read everything necessary to take on "Hamlet's Mill" with confidence. It was daunting due to my deficiencies in Native American, Mesoamerican, Polynesian, and Indian mythology. I knew next to nothing about aetiologica. But I *had* read Gene Wolfe, which might be of no use if you don't read him the way I do. So while I much of what was referred there just drifted by incomprehensibly, so much -- so much -- left me saying "oooooh" and "oh. my. gosh." Still, Josh is right in that it *is* a hard book. Harder and longer than "The White Goddess", but every bit as useful in understanding what Wolfe is frequently driving at in his major novels. --- Crush ---