# In defense of Pandora, by Holly Hollander *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Oct 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. --- ### Matthew King *10 Oct 2008, 17:08* > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > Pandora, by Holly Hollander > > -- the last being the only Wolfe novel I don't think I'll ever reread. In defense of Pandora, it is worth re-reading, at the very least because it has so many of the notorious Lupine tropes. - mythological themes; subversion thereof - a lamed man, with that explainer-of-things voice Wolfe so often uses (cf Silk, Ziggurat-dad, post-Valhalla Able). - 1st person narrative, with layered provenance. "By Holly Hollander", but this nice writer from Chicago helped her out. - exasperating lacunae. "I'll tell you about this thing later." Also just plain skipping bits, especially after something exciting happens. ---