interview questions

James Wynn · 26 Dec 2010, 03:54 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:54:26 -0600
Subject: (urth) interview questions
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It's worth noting that this list was at the time of that interview in 
heated debate over Marc's theories about Blushas or Grushas. Marc had 
posted on a communication he had had with Wolfe about his Blushas theory 
in which Wolfe had replied "No! Urth is Green!" Gevers had contacted 
Wolfe for a more elaborate explanation and Wolfe's reply was that he was 
joking and "Sometimes, I should just keep my mouth shut." Additionally, 
it had been pointed out that the Blue/Green planet combination was a 
reoccurring trope and that St. Anne had also had intelligent trees and 
fairyland-like natives.

So, I can see that he saw himself as a representative of the 
Urth-listers in this interview and saw the question as one that needed 
to be asked.

u+16b9

> Ryan Dunn-
> More specifically, the interviewer (Gevers) is not actually interested 
> in Wolfe as a human being and accomplished writer, he is interested in 
> Gene as a decoder ring for books he liked. It's wildly missing the 
> point. To be in the presence of a great author, and only be trying to 
> desperately "go for broke" to get answers to intentional mysteries is 
> more than disrespectful, it's achingly naive.

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