Greetings Fellow WerWolves

On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jason Cassidy <bowenkge at gmail.com> wrote: I just wanted to say hello. I've been reading the listserve for a few years now, taking the time to go through everything (although with a strange feeling of time travel). I've been reading Wolfe for about 20 years now, since my early teens, and I have been absolutely stymied by how deep and nuanced you've all been in your theorizing and hypothesizing. I hope to be able to hop into some of these discussion, but for now, thanks for the enlightenment. Jason _______________________________________________

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jason Cassidy <bowenkge at gmail.com> wrote:

I just wanted to say hello. I've been reading the listserve for a few years now, taking the time to go through everything (although with a strange feeling of time travel). I've been reading Wolfe for about 20 years now, since my early teens, and I have been absolutely stymied by how deep and nuanced you've all been in your theorizing and hypothesizing. I hope to be able to hop into some of these discussion, but for now, thanks for the enlightenment. Jason _______________________________________________

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jason Cassidy <bowenkge at gmail.com> wrote:

I just wanted to say hello. ?I've been reading the listserve for a few years now, taking the time to go through everything (although with a strange feeling of time travel). ?I've been reading Wolfe for about 20 years now, since my early teens, and I have been absolutely stymied by how deep and nuanced you've all been in your theorizing and hypothesizing. ?I hope to be able to hop into some of these discussion, but for now, thanks for the enlightenment. Jason _______________________________________________ Urth Mailing List To post, write urth at urth.net Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net/

Welcome Jason thanks. ?As you can see the list and the dominant mood and the constituents have changed a lot over the years. ?The early list was especially interesting in the specialization of many posters - vicars, editors, etc. Some day I hope a lot of that early work will be utilized in some more unified form. Wolfe as a childhood experience is wonderful. _______________________________________________ Urth Mailing List To post, write urth at urth.net Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net/

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote: Thanks so much, Aaron! I appreciate it. I am getting to the portion of his short fiction in the mid 70s where Wolfe produced most of his superb but super dense novellas - Forleson, Silhouette, Death of Doctor Island, Seven American Nights, Eyeflash Miracles, Tracking Song, etc. and it may take me a bit to work through those rigorously, (they are denser than most other novels, but there is a lot of existing explication I need to sort through) but once I get to the 80s his concentration on the longer novels and series will get the short fiction analysis moving more quickly again. Thanks for the kind words. From: aaron <aaronsingleton at gmail.com> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:28 PM Subject: Re: (urth) Greetings Fellow WerWolves I would love to see the collective wisdom of the list in book form someday. There is much here of interest to the Wolfe enthusiast. I have many times gotten lost in the archives and spent hours reading. Almost as fun as reading Wolfe himself. And I absolutely love your analysis of Wolfe's short fiction, Marc. A Herculean effort on your part, but well worth it to those who get to read it. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jason Cassidy <bowenkge at gmail.com> wrote:

I just wanted to say hello. I've been reading the listserve for a few years now, taking the time to go through everything (although with a strange feeling of time travel). I've been reading Wolfe for about 20 years now, since my early teens, and I have been absolutely stymied by how deep and nuanced you've all been in your theorizing and hypothesizing. I hope to be able to hop into some of these discussion, but for now, thanks for the enlightenment. Jason _______________________________________________

I just wanted to say hello. I've been reading the listserve for a few years now, taking the time to go through everything (although with a strange feeling of time travel). I've been reading Wolfe for about 20 years now, since my early teens, and I have been absolutely stymied by how deep and nuanced you've all been in your theorizing and hypothesizing. I hope to be able to hop into some of these discussion, but for now, thanks for the enlightenment.

Thanks so much, Aaron! I appreciate it. I am getting to the portion of his short fiction in the mid 70s where Wolfe produced most of his superb but super dense novellas - Forleson, Silhouette, Death of Doctor Island, Seven American Nights, Eyeflash Miracles, Tracking Song, etc. and it may take me a bit to work through those rigorously, (they are denser than most other novels, but there is a lot of existing explication I need to sort through) but once I get to the 80s his concentration on the longer novels and series will get the short fiction analysis moving more quickly again. Thanks for the kind words. From: aaron <aaronsingleton at gmail.com> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:28 PM Subject: Re: (urth) Greetings Fellow WerWolves I would love to see the collective wisdom of the list in book form someday. There is much here of interest to the Wolfe enthusiast. I have many times gotten lost in the archives and spent hours reading. Almost as fun as reading Wolfe himself. And I absolutely love your analysis of Wolfe's short fiction, Marc. A Herculean effort on your part, but well worth it to those who get to read it. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>> wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jason Cassidy <bowenkge at gmail.com <mailto:bowenkge at gmail.com>> wrote: > I just wanted to say hello. I've been reading the listserve for a few years now, taking the time to go through everything (although with a strange feeling of time travel). I've been reading Wolfe for about 20 years now, since my early teens, and I have been absolutely stymied by how deep and nuanced you've all been in your theorizing and hypothesizing. I hope to be able to hop into some of these discussion, but for now, thanks for the enlightenment. > > Jason > _______________________________________________

On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jason Cassidy <bowenkge at gmail.com> wrote: I just wanted to say hello. I've been reading the listserve for a few years now, taking the time to go through everything (although with a strange feeling of time travel). I've been reading Wolfe for about 20 years now, since my early teens, and I have been absolutely stymied by how deep and nuanced you've all been in your theorizing and hypothesizing. I hope to be able to hop into some of these discussion, but for now, thanks for the enlightenment. Jason ______________________________________________

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Allan Anderson <rubel at goosemoon.org> wrote: On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jason Cassidy <bowenkge at gmail.com> wrote:

I just wanted to say hello. I've been reading the listserve for a few years now, taking the time to go through everything (although with a strange feeling of time travel). I've been reading Wolfe for about 20 years now, since my early teens, and I have been absolutely stymied by how deep and nuanced you've all been in your theorizing and hypothesizing. I hope to be able to hop into some of these discussion, but for now, thanks for the enlightenment. Jason ______________________________________________

From one lurker to another, I also say welcome. One of my favorite reasons to read this list is following the tangents and other authors whose work comes up. I finally got around to Borges partially due to him being "required reading" for this list, and I've also been delighted following up on books by other list favorites such as John Crowley, Jeff VanderMeer and R.A. Lafferty. So aside from encouraging me to read more Wolfe and dig deeper into his work, I love this list for the web of other modern weird tales that spins out from the center. _______________________________________________

One of my favorite reasons to read this list is following the tangents and other authors whose work comes up.