This Week in Google Alerts: Gene Wolfe podcast interview The Urth list — 5 messages, 4 voices, 26 Jun 2013 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6393 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. ============================================================================== Gwern Branwen — 26 Jun 2013, 16:11 http://www.tommerritt.com/2013/06/25/sl-podcast-134-interview-with-gene-wolfe/ "S&L Podcast ? #134 — Interview with Gene Wolfe"; from the Nebula Awards > Were you expecting a wrap-up episode for Among Others? Sorry kids, Veronica decided to go on vacation, and all you get is this lousy interview with legendary author Gene Wolfe. Just kidding, the interview is awesome. http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SlPodcast-134-InterviewWithGeneWolfe/134SlPodcast-134-InterviewWithGeneWolfe.mp3 (47M; 34:28) Interview starts 02:04, ends 33:37. Topics: - 'science fiction' vs 'fantasy' and 'science fantasy'; - "Beach Hill"; - on another Latro book ('I don't know if I will ever write another Latro book; I may. Those take a lot of research.'); - ancient Egyptian society, the Persian empire; - at ~12m, Borges (Wolfe 'went through a period in which I read all the Borges I could find and I also went to a lecture of his. I never actually got to meet him but I did see him in the flesh. I was sitting in the audience and [inaudible] he was just the most marvelous man...2 young people from the Spanish department, and they say 'we are from the Spanish department [University] and we're here to interpret to interpret for Signor Borges as necessary, and he begins to speak and he has English down absolutely pat - he has a Spanish accent, yes, but he has a bigger vocabulary than 90% of the audience and I never heard him make a grammatical mistake...He was great.'), Wolfe mentions 'The Garden of Forking Paths'; - Chesterton's _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ & _The Man Who Was Thursday_; - Charles Dickens, where Wolfe brings up a personal story about reading _Pickwick Papers_ at 14, a friend starting to talk like Mr. Jingles, who went on to become an Air Force psychologist, met a 'tragic' end, Wolfe misses him, and he brought the friend back in a story whose name he couldn't recall; - the Pringle machines and the clever way the Pringle shape assists manufacture; Wolfe claims that when the fresh Pringles come out of the salter, they are 'unspeakably delicious'; - screenrights (_Shadow of the Torturer_ options sold '2 or 3 times'); - on the upcoming _Shadows of the New Sun_ story anthology ('some of my characters as handled by other people, but not as handled by me'); to help with money issues related to Rose being in the nursing home (arthritis, Alzheimer's) and difficulties in reimbursement (at ~30m) - _The Land Across_; "it's about a young American to travels to an obscure liberal eastern European country who gets into all sorts of trouble; and as I told someone, there are two attractive young women and there's an attractive old woman; there's a crazy cult; there's a truly evil cult; and much other stuff stuff - boats and so on, and when I got through giving the whole description I thought 'my god I forgot dogs and motorcycles! No dogs and motorcycles.' He goes to prison and he ends up as a member of the secret police of this little east European dictatorship and - and I had a lot of fun" -- gwern http://www.gwern.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DAVID STOCKHOFF — 26 Jun 2013, 17:16 in reply to Gwern Branwen Rose has Alzheimer's? That's awful. From everything I have heard, it's like death without a funeral. I'm glad he's still having fun with writing. > ________________________________ > From: Gwern Branwen > To: The Urth Mailing List > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:11 PM > Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Gene Wolfe podcast interview > > > http://www.tommerritt.com/2013/06/25/sl-podcast-134-interview-with-gene-wolfe/ > "S&L Podcast ? #134 — Interview with Gene Wolfe"; from the Nebula > Awards > > Were you expecting a wrap-up episode for Among Others? Sorry kids, Veronica decided to go on vacation, and all you get is this lousy interview with legendary author Gene Wolfe. Just kidding, the interview is awesome. > http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SlPodcast-134-InterviewWithGeneWolfe/134SlPodcast-134-InterviewWithGeneWolfe.mp3 > (47M; 34:28) > > Interview starts 02:04, ends 33:37. > > Topics: > > - 'science fiction' vs 'fantasy' and 'science fantasy'; > - "Beach Hill"; > - on another Latro book ('I don't know if I will ever write another > Latro book; I may. Those take a lot of research.'); > - ancient Egyptian society, the Persian empire; > - at ~12m, Borges (Wolfe 'went through a period in which I read all > the Borges I could find and I also went to a lecture of his. I never > actually got to meet him but I did see him in the flesh. I was sitting > in the audience and [inaudible] he was just the most marvelous man...2 > young people from the Spanish department, and they say 'we are from > the Spanish department [University] and we're here to interpret to > interpret for Signor Borges as necessary, and he begins to speak and > he has English down absolutely pat - he has a Spanish accent, yes, but > he has a bigger vocabulary than 90% of the audience and I never heard > him make a grammatical mistake...He was great.'), Wolfe mentions 'The > Garden of Forking Paths'; > - Chesterton's _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ & _The Man Who Was Thursday_; > - Charles Dickens, where Wolfe brings up a personal story about > reading _Pickwick Papers_ at 14, a friend starting to talk like Mr. > Jingles, who went on to become an Air Force psychologist, met a > 'tragic' end, Wolfe misses him, and he brought the friend back in a > story whose name he couldn't recall; > - the Pringle machines and the clever way the Pringle shape assists > manufacture; Wolfe claims that when the fresh Pringles come out of the > salter, they are 'unspeakably delicious'; > - screenrights (_Shadow of the Torturer_ options sold '2 or 3 times'); > - on the upcoming _Shadows of the New Sun_ story anthology ('some of > my characters as handled by other people, but not as handled by me'); > to help with money issues related to Rose being in the nursing home > (arthritis, Alzheimer's) and difficulties in reimbursement (at ~30m) > - _The Land Across_; "it's about a young American to travels to an > obscure liberal eastern European country who gets into all sorts of > trouble; and as I told someone, there are two attractive young women > and there's an attractive old woman; there's a crazy cult; there's a > truly evil cult; and much other stuff stuff - boats and so on, and > when I got through giving the whole description I thought 'my god I > forgot dogs and motorcycles! No dogs and motorcycles.' He goes to > prison and he ends up as a member of the secret police of this little > east European dictatorship and - and I had a lot of fun" > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gwern Branwen — 26 Jun 2013, 17:24 in reply to DAVID STOCKHOFF > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:16 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote: > Rose has Alzheimer's? That's awful. From everything I have heard, it's like > death without a funeral. Well, I wouldn't swear to it - I am hearing impaired and so I'm not *sure* that's what he said, but it certainly sounded like it. Feel free to listen to that section, it's not long. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc Aramini — 26 Jun 2013, 17:41 in reply to Gwern Branwen Yes she has had it pretty severely for years now. 8000 a month? Sweet lord. He said the bills were bad but I didn't realize they were that bad. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:16 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote: > > Rose has Alzheimer's? That's awful. From everything I have heard, it's like > > death without a funeral. > Well, I wouldn't swear to it - I am hearing impaired and so I'm not > *sure* that's what he said, but it certainly sounded like it. Feel > free to listen to that section, it's not long. > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fernando Gouvea — 26 Jun 2013, 18:07 in reply to Marc Aramini Sounds about right. We spend more than that on home care for my father. It's a nasty disease for those around the sick person, that's for sure. The actual sick person is often quite content. Fernando > On 6/26/2013 1:41 PM, Marc Aramini wrote: > Yes she has had it pretty severely for years now. 8000 a month? Sweet lord. He said the bills were bad but I didn't realize they were that bad. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:16 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote: > > > Rose has Alzheimer's? That's awful. From everything I have heard, it's like > > > death without a funeral. > > Well, I wouldn't swear to it - I am hearing impaired and so I'm not > > *sure* that's what he said, but it certainly sounded like it. Feel > > free to listen to that section, it's not long. > > > > -- > > gwern > > http://www.gwern.net > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------