# People Interview? *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 22 May 1997* > 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. --- ### Joel Priddy *22 May 1997, 14:02* Like an idiot, I missed the People interview. I was sitting on the couch when it was going on thinking "A whole evening to myself... what should I do with it? Maybe there's something good on TV..." There wasn't, and I ended up cleaning the kitchen. Imagine the slap I gave myself the next morning when I realized what I'd missed. So, figuring second-hand experience would just have to do, I went over to the People page to read the transcript. But it wasn't there. And these lists haven't been filled with excited discussion in the interview's wake. Did it occur? Anyone have a transcript? -cephalothorax- --- ### Jason Voegele *22 May 1997, 13:07 · follows Joel Priddy* > At 10:02 AM 5/22/97 -0400, you wrote: > > [Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works] > > Like an idiot, I missed the People interview. I was sitting on > the couch when it was going on thinking "A whole evening to > myself... what should I do with it? Maybe there's something good > on TV..." There wasn't, and I ended up cleaning the kitchen. > Imagine the slap I gave myself the next morning when I realized > what I'd missed. > So, figuring second-hand experience would just have to do, I > went over to the People page to read the transcript. But it > wasn't there. And these lists haven't been filled with excited > discussion in the interview's wake. Did it occur? Anyone have a > transcript? > > > -cephalothorax- LOL! I did the very same thing! (Well, I didn't clean the kitchen, but you know what I mean.) I haven't seen any sign of a transcript yet, but I'm hoping that it's just a delay. Even if People doesn't post the transcript, I'm sure some Wolfe fan attended and--thinking of all us poor idiots--will post it on their web page. Let's keep our eyes open. Jason --- ### Doug Eigsti *23 May 1997, 07:45 · follows Jason Voegele* > [Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works] > > Like an idiot, I missed the People interview. I was sitting on > the couch when it was going on thinking "A whole evening to > myself... what should I do with it? Maybe there's something good > on TV..." There wasn't, and I ended up cleaning the kitchen. > Imagine the slap I gave myself the next morning when I realized > what I'd missed. > So, figuring second-hand experience would just have to do, I > went over to the People page to read the transcript. But it > wasn't there. And these lists haven't been filled with excited > discussion in the interview's wake. Did it occur? Anyone have a > transcript? > > > -cephalothorax- cephalothorax, I tried to join the People chat but the "ichat" plug-in software kept crashing on me. The following day their chat system was down. I don't know if it went off as planned. Anyone have more details? I, too, have noticed the dearth of discussion since the "Lupine" Express left the station, (from the Whorl list). This may indicate that we don't know what we should think about Wolfe's fiction pending his answers, even though we had plenty of opinions before. Shouldn't a work of fiction stand on the content of the text alone and not on the opinion of critics, fans, or even the author? Regardless of the intent, a novel is just that, a novel, anything additional is just commentary. In joke telling, it spoils the fun if it has to be explained. Don't expect Wolfe to give away any punch lines. Note: This did not hinder me from buying a ticket on the train. I want to know the answers as much as anyone. =Talon= ---