{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5931", "note": "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.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5931, "subject": "new Wolfe interview", "messages": 9, "voices": 7, "first": "2011-01-19T22:57:51+00:00", "last": "2011-01-20T04:35:47+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "aaron", "address": "aaronsingleton at gmail.com" }, "date": "2011-01-19T22:57:51+00:00", "subject": "(urth) new Wolfe interview", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "New Wolfe interview where he talks about Home Fires among other things.\nGood one.\n\nhttp://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime?skyline=true&s=i" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Aaron Singleton" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Gwern Branwen", "address": "gwern0 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2011-01-19T23:02:06+00:00", "subject": "(urth) new Wolfe interview", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:57 PM, aaron wrote:\nNew Wolfe interview where he talks about Home Fires among other things.\nGood one.\n\nhttp://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime?skyline=true&s=i" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I think this is the third time this interview has been posted." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "aaron", "address": "aaronsingleton at gmail.com" }, "date": "2011-01-19T23:18:37+00:00", "subject": "(urth) new Wolfe interview", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "third time's the charm!" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:\nOn Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:57 PM, aaron wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "New Wolfe interview where he talks about Home Fires among other things.\nGood one." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime?skyline=true&s=i\n\nI think this is the third time this interview has been posted.\n\n--\ngwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Matthew Keeley", "address": "matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2011-01-20T03:09:39+00:00", "subject": "(urth) new Wolfe interview", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:\nOn Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:57 PM, aaron wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "New Wolfe interview where he talks about Home Fires among other things.\nGood one." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime?skyline=true&s=i\n\nI think this is the third time this interview has been posted." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Surely this is the first time the list has repeated itself?" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Greg Bates", "address": "gregory.a.bates at gmail.com" }, "date": "2011-01-20T03:39:50+00:00", "subject": "(urth) new Wolfe interview", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "VERY good interview. I just finished Home Fires a couple of hours ago, and\ni'm pondering it in relation to the comments Wolfe makes. This line really\nmakes me laugh:\n\"if Skip had been the kind of man that Chelle's father was, I would have had\na very different story, and one that I wouldn't much want to write.\"\n\nOn Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Matthew Keeley wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:57 PM, aaron wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "New Wolfe interview where he talks about Home Fires among other things.\nGood one." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime?skyline=true&s=i\n\nI think this is the third time this interview has been posted." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Surely this is the first time the list has repeated itself?\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<844956.23646.qm@web37604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Craig Brewer", "address": "cnbrewer at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2011-01-20T04:00:36+00:00", "subject": "(urth) new Wolfe interview", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Just ordered my copy. I must say that I really look forward to completely \nmisunderstanding it based on my own preference for an idiosyncratic reading \nbacked up by gut reactions to esoteric references and gleanings of subtle clues \nthat only I seem to recognize as clues! heh..." } ] }, { "message_id": "<50FE407A51084874951F21F6BEB4E5F9@jill>", "from": { "name": "Gerry Quinn", "address": "gerryq at indigo.ie" }, "date": "2011-01-20T04:00:49+00:00", "subject": "(urth) new Wolfe interview", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": " ----- Original Message ----- \n From: Matthew Keeley " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": " On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:\nhttp://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime?skyline=true&s=i" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": " I think this is the third time this interview has been posted.\n\n Surely this is the first time the list has repeated itself? \n\nIn this cycle anyway ;-)\n\n- Gerry Quinn" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Greg Bates", "address": "gregory.a.bates at gmail.com" }, "date": "2011-01-20T04:22:52+00:00", "subject": "(urth) new Wolfe interview", "in_reply_to": "<50FE407A51084874951F21F6BEB4E5F9@jill>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Oh, i'm absolutely certain i've completely misunderstood it. Partially\nbecause I didn't feel there was that much to misunderstand, which is always\na sign with Wolfe that I haven't paid enough attention.\n\nFor what it's worth, I liked it better than AEG but probably not as much as\nTSH. I feel like it started out really strongly, but gets completely bogged\ndown halfway through (the action starts to disappear and get replaced with\nextremely long conversations where it feels like Skip is just explaining the\nsame things to different people). The ending also felt very left-field and\ntacked on, which of course means I missed something. After I finish a couple\nother books I got with my Kindle gift card i'll revisit it (hopefully with a\nbit of clarifying discussion from this board.)" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:\n ----- Original Message -----\n*From:* Matthew Keeley \nOn Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime?skyline=true&s=i\n\nI think this is the third time this interview has been posted." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Surely this is the first time the list has repeated itself?\n\n\nIn this cycle anyway ;-)\n\n- Gerry Quinn\n\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Son of Witz", "address": "sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org" }, "date": "2011-01-20T04:35:47+00:00", "subject": "(urth) new Wolfe interview", "in_reply_to": "<844956.23646.qm@web37604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Genuine LOL" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Jan 19, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Craig Brewer wrote:\nJust ordered my copy. I must say that I really look forward to completely misunderstanding it based on my own preference for an idiosyncratic reading backed up by gut reactions to esoteric references and gleanings of subtle clues that only I seem to recognize as clues! heh...\n\n\nFrom: Greg Bates \nTo: The Urth Mailing List \nSent: Wed, January 19, 2011 9:39:50 PM\nSubject: Re: (urth) new Wolfe interview\n\nVERY good interview. I just finished Home Fires a couple of hours ago, and i'm pondering it in relation to the comments Wolfe makes. This line really makes me laugh: \n\"if Skip had been the kind of man that Chelle's father was, I would have had a very different story, and one that I wouldn't much want to write.\"\n\nOn Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Matthew Keeley wrote:\nOn Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:\nOn Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:57 PM, aaron wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "New Wolfe interview where he talks about Home Fires among other things.\nGood one.\n\nhttp://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime?skyline=true&s=i" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I think this is the third time this interview has been posted.\n\n\nSurely this is the first time the list has repeated itself? \n\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }