Typhon's nature

Jeff Wilson · 15 Oct 2011, 00:56 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:56:32 -0500
Subject: (urth) Typhon's nature
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On 10/14/2011 5:13 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> From: Jeff Wilson<jwilson at clueland.com>
>> On 10/14/2011 10:16 AM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>> Steven Brust apparently says he got his method from Wolfe: it's "And now, I'm going to tell you something really cool."
>>>
>>> http://books.google.com/books?id=hHbWswMuvOgC&pg=PA397
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what the source of that might be?
>>
>> King said it in DANSE MACABRE, about 1981.
>
> Thanks!  I hope Brust didn't mix Wolfe up with King.  I'd rather think Wolfe said something like that too.  (But maybe my response is more appropriate to fiction than to reality.)

It's not an unusual sentiment among speculative fiction writers and 
publishers, and it is paraphrased many times over the decades, even in 
genre magazine titles like TALES TO ASTONISH and THRILLING WONDER STORIES.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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