Quotable Wolfe

Kieran Mullen · 19 May 2006, 20:08 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

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From: kieran at ou.edu (Kieran Mullen)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:08:40 -0500
Subject: (urth) Quotable Wolfe
Message-ID: <d50f1ff63c62cd76da4c321736f6a499 at ou.edu>


    One thing I love about Wolfe is his prose.  His choice of words, 
their cadence, their compact power.  OTOH, I can't think of many quotes 
off the top of my head.   I am not sure Wolfe *is* quotable.  It's more 
the tapestry than the thread.

    Do people have:

        Favorite Severian quotes?

        Favorite Wolfe quotes?

I do have some favorite quotes, but they're from short stories.  I'll 
have to get my copy of "Endangered Species" instead of trying to cobble 
them from memory.

Kieran

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