# Wombat's Wolfe Seminar *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 03 Jun 2001* > 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *03 Jun 2001, 08:54* >> Wombat quoted and wrote: >> OTOH, it does lead to an interesting notion: what if, instead of a FAQ >> about a book/series/story, what if there was a position tabulation, sort of >> like a voting ballet, showing broad points ("Participants like the piece" >> xx%; "Respondents dislike the piece" xx%), then medium points, down to fine >> detail points? > Ahah! The Wolfe Seminar! We could all get pink, red, grey, and black balls > and vote on whether Severian is his own mother.... Which makes me think it might come out more like "Family Feuuud": "Survey says . . . BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is a good read!" But that would be fine on two counts: it would still do the job; it would reflect the family feud nature of the discussions. =mantis= Sirius Fiction Has Moved To http://www.siriusfiction.com/ *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Alice Turner *04 Jun 2001, 12:09 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* >> Ahah! The Wolfe Seminar! We could all get pink, red, grey, and black >> balls >> and vote on whether Severian is his own mother.... > Which makes me think it might come out more like "Family Feuuud": "Survey > says . . . BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is a good read!" > > But that would be fine on two counts: it would still do the job; it > would > reflect the family feud nature of the discussions. What, us feud? -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---