# Wolfe Encounters *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Sep 1997* > 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. --- ### Patri10629 *02 Sep 1997, 21:50* Buds, I told Gene Wolfe at a Kaffeklatch at the WORLDCON in San Antonio: my wife got pneumonia and was bedridden for four days and finally read (after much pestering) his superb The Book of The Long Sun series. She urged me to tell him that she was barely aware of her sickness during the reading. "Thank God for Bacteria!" said Wolfe. :) Patrick O'Leary ---