Disingenous Gene

Jeff Wilson · 28 Jul 2006, 06:12 · from 2006-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:12:24 -0500
Subject: (urth) Disingenous Gene
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b sharp wrote:
> Twice in recent posts, Gene Wolfe has been accused of being disingenuous in 
> interviews.  Another Lupinology truism?

More ambiguous. At one point he says Urth is "perhaps a million years in 
our future."

In _There Are Doors_,

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