reading Williams The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 17 Dec 2012 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6332 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. ============================================================================== Stephen Case — 17 Dec 2012, 16:51 I've said that reading Williams was what taught/trained me to be able to read and appreciate Lafferty. I've read GREATER TRUMPS, PLACE OF THE LION, and DESCENT INTO HELL, and I think I like the last of these the best. Also: I'm disappointed the thread a couple weeks ago about the potentiality of a Wolfe biography never went anywhere. Surely someone has something more to say about this than simply how much we'd all love one. -Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gwern Branwen — 17 Dec 2012, 17:02 in reply to Stephen Case > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Case wrote: > Also: I'm disappointed the thread a couple weeks ago about the potentiality > of a Wolfe biography never went anywhere. Surely someone has something more > to say about this than simply how much we'd all love one. A biography is hard work: who will fund the years of work for a really good one? How would one convince Wolfe to cooperate and that one isn't a flake? Anyone who needs some emails on a mailing list to motivate them probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc Aramini — 17 Dec 2012, 17:18 in reply to Gwern Branwen I have about a a decade and a half worth of correspondence with Wolfe but would not feel comfortable taking on a task like that. Biography doesn't interest me as a writer, and much of the last eight years communication has been personal in nature, less about his art. He strikes me as approachable but private. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Case wrote: > > Also: I'm disappointed the thread a couple weeks ago about the potentiality > > of a Wolfe biography never went anywhere. Surely someone has something more > > to say about this than simply how much we'd all love one. > A biography is hard work: who will fund the years of work for a really > good one? How would one convince Wolfe to cooperate and that one isn't > a flake? > > Anyone who needs some emails on a mailing list to motivate them > probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place. > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Miller — 19 Dec 2012, 22:49 in reply to Marc Aramini A friend of mine and I have discussed doing a video documentary about Wolfe but it would need interviews with him to work and Ive never been able to find the right channels to go about doing it. > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Marc Aramini wrote: > I have about a a decade and a half worth of correspondence with Wolfe but > would not feel comfortable taking on a task like that. Biography doesn't > interest me as a writer, and much of the last eight years communication has > been personal in nature, less about his art. He strikes me as approachable > but private. > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Case wrote: > > > Also: I'm disappointed the thread a couple weeks ago about the > > > potentiality > > > of a Wolfe biography never went anywhere. Surely someone has something > > > more > > > to say about this than simply how much we'd all love one. > > A biography is hard work: who will fund the years of work for a really > > good one? How would one convince Wolfe to cooperate and that one isn't > > a flake? > > > > Anyone who needs some emails on a mailing list to motivate them > > probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place. > > > > -- > > gwern > > http://www.gwern.net > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------