An Introduction...

David Stockhoff · 16 Jun 2010, 00:05 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:05:26 -0400
Subject: (urth) An Introduction...
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Perhaps we could send you round for questioning of Mr Wolfe when we are 
at a particularly difficult impasse. We could take up a collection for 
the plane fare.

Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Ryan Dunn.
>
> I know many of you are long-time participants here on the urth.net 
> <http://urth.net> mailing list. I am humbled by much of your prowess 
> and breadth of knowledge on things both inside and out of Wolfe's Whorl.
>
> About me, briefly...
>
> I am a commercial film director living and working in New York City 
> (www.ladies-gentlemen.tv <http://www.ladies-gentlemen.tv>). I recently 
> moved from Barrington, IL, where I worked in Chicago for a cumulative 
> 7 years.
>
> But perhaps the only real tidbit you might care to know about me at 
> this point is that, while working in Chicago, I was fortunate enough 
> to have lived five doors down from Mr. Wolfe himself, and have found 
> him to be one of the kindest neighbors a man and his family could ask 
> for. Having watched him walk his dogs (first Calamity Jane and then 
> Bobby) on a daily basis, we formed a very passing, but endearing 
> relationship.
>
> Attempting to have conversations with him, however, was a bit like 
> asking a toddler to contrast and compare Dickens against Shakespeare. 
> I, of course, was the toddler. I remember one incident where a 
> compliment from me on his latest book, "An Evil Guest," quickly 
> evolved into a history lesson from Gene on when the Egyptians 
> attempted to invade the Greek Islands.
>
> Wolfe was in fact my favorite author before I moved to Barrington 
> (which quite coincidentally is where my wife was born and raised). I 
> went through genre writing both quiality (Tolkien, Gibson, Stephenson) 
> and questionable (Rowling, Goodkind, Jordan) before arriving at 
> Wolfe's doorstep. But once I discovered him, all other writers could 
> do little more than pale in comparison. I did not have any clue where 
> Mr. Wolfe lived when we moved into that quaint village, so imagine my 
> surprise when my father-in-law informed me!
>
> At any rate, I simply wanted to say hello, share my background, unique 
> story about Gene Wolfe, and that I hope to add to -- and use this list 
> in the future -- for reasons both selfish and social. I am a fan of 
> the urth.net <http://urth.net> group, and have been reading passively 
> for many years (it is a bit of work to try and stay current with these 
> discussions!).
>
> Hope to join the debate some time soon.
>
> ...ryan
>
> P.S. Also, I'm going to pretend he used my surname as inspiration for 
> his main character in The Sorcerer's House, Baxter Dunn. A man can 
> pretend, can't he?
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