# Mute reviewed, sorta *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 May 2008* > 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. --- ### Matt Sab *12 May 2008, 15:57* A review of the Wasteland compilation of stories, included "Mute" by GW?: http://darkwolfsfantasyreviews.blogspot.com/2008/04/wastelands-stories-of-apocalypse-edited.html Do you think Gene Wolfe would receive more press coverage if more reviewers did not have a similar reaction as this reviewer? ?For those who don't want to bother clicking through, here is the take on Mute: "Mute" by Gene Wolfe. The story is about two children that come home and find it empty and find an empty land. I have to admit that I didn't understand this story. --- ### Blake Hyde *12 May 2008, 16:22 · in reply to Matt Sab* > Do you think Gene Wolfe would receive more press coverage if more reviewers > did not have a similar reaction as this reviewer? Sure, but he also wouldn't be as interesting. Funny thing is, it's a pretty straight-forward story, in terms of symbolism. . . . . . . (spoilers) . . . . . . The children represent Adam and Eve. You could say that the dead father is God; or that the television is God, and that the "MUTE" represents their inability to hear the voice of God. Either way, it's a story of the Garden. I thought it was good, but pretty simple... ---