Call 4 a FAQulty

Kevin J. Maroney · 26 Jan 1999, 11:19 · from urth-v0023.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at crossover.com>
Subject: Re:  (urth) Call 4 a FAQulty
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:19:29
Message-ID: <urth-v0023-0020 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0023/0020.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

At 10:24 PM 1/25/99 EST, Christopher wrote:
>After all, this is the one single book we're here for, anyway, with _Peace=
_,
>etc. being a sort of frill. Besides, I don't think there are any *frequent=
ly
>asked* questions on any of the minor Wolfe novels, whereas we've treaded o=
ver
>certain points of the BotNS repeatedly.

Here are a few Wolfe FAQs which have nothing to do with BotNS and one which
does but isn't *about* BotNS:=20

"What's up with Dennis Weer?"
"Which egg contained the hallucinogen?"
"What became of John V. Marsh? And what does VRT stand for?"
"How is the _Long Sun_ related to the _New Sun_?"
"What is a memory palace?"
"Where should I start reading Wolfe?"
"What Wolfe short story collections are there?"=20
"What is Cheap Street? What other small-press Wolfe am I missing?"
"Did Gene Wolfe really invent Pringles?"

I agree that the most Frequently Asked Questions are about _BotNS_, because
it's the largest, densest(*), and most-read of Wolfe' works. But it's
hardly the only work about which the same questions come up again and again=
.=20

(*)Actually, I think that _Peace_ might be denser.=20

Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html

*More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net