interview questions

António Pedro Marques · 06 Jan 2011, 20:08 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:08:44 +0000
Subject: (urth) interview questions
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Gerry Quinn wrote (06-01-2011 20:01):
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ant?nio Pedro Marques"
> <entonio at gmail.com>
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>> Dave Muir-Bacon wrote (06-01-2011 16:18):
>>> I'm enjoying the on-going discussion of Cerberus (sorry, 5HoC) having
>>> recently reread it, but could somebody please post a link to the
>>> original "interview" that prompted these questions?
>>>
>>> I realise I could probably find it by looking back through the archives
>>> but that might be a slow process.
>>
>> Good luck trying to make sense of threading and subject lines on this
>> list.
>> It must be said: in what regards the proper technical usage of mailing
>> lists, this community are but shadow children.
>
> Reading on the website may help in going back over a thread.

To answer Dave's question, the interview was Gene Wolfe's and in relation to 
Long Sun / Short Sun. The list discussed how some interviewers sometimes try 
to force author's to answer their personal minute queries about a story and 
how disrespectful that may come across. It came up while discussing the 
identity of Blue, Green, Urth and whatnot. Then tFHoC was given as another 
example of how author's indications about their stories should be parsed.

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