# Gene Wolfe's literary portrait of Neil Armstrong *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Aug 2012* > 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. --- ### Daniel Petersen *26 Aug 2012, 21:02* I thought you folks would appreciate being reminded that Wolfe actually composed his own tribute to Neil Armstrong back in 1980: http://silkandhornheresy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/this-warrior-of-dead-world-gene-wolfes.html While I'm at it, does this reminiscence from Armstrong not sound rather Wolfean? "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." (Neil Armstrong) *URTHRISE:* [image: 9.3 Earth seen from the Moon] -DOJP ---