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David Stockhoff · 20 Dec 2011, 22:12 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:12:06 -0500
Subject: (urth) instant new fan
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I recently had an anesthesiologist whose wife had read Short Sun (he 
recognized the cover of my copy). That's the closest to an actual flesh 
encounter I have come.

Do we need to start approaching strangers in bookstores to speak 
stammeringly to them, plucking at their sleeves and drooling, and 
insisting on the superiority of our Master?

On 12/20/2011 4:16 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> Alas, nor have I, Antonin!  I was speaking of people's comments online.
>
> -DOJP  (The friend whose comments I shared that started this thread 
> lives across and ocean from me - when I see him face to face again, 
> I'll have finally met in the flesh a fellow Wolfe fan!)
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Antonin Scriabin 
> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com <mailto:kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Well, I have never met someone in real life who has read Wolfe!  I
>     am trying to proselytize, however, and have started picking up
>     used copies of my favorites to give away.
>
>     On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Daniel Petersen
>     <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com
>     <mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         On the other hand, I often find those who love Wolfe's ornate
>         verbosity in BotNS don't like his more bare and minimalist
>         style in the other books.  I think he's an unspeakably
>         talented artist that he can handle so deftly these different
>         voices and styles.
>
>         -DOJP
>
>
>         On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:14 AM, David Stockhoff
>         <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>             On 12/19/2011 6:43 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>
>                     From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<danldo at gmail.com
>                     <mailto:danldo at gmail.com>>
>                     I have many favorite passages in tBotNS, all of
>                     which totally blow me
>                     away with the beauty of the language.
>
>                     My favorite, however, must be the passage in
>                     _Citadel_ where he
>                     realizes that the Claw was just the thorn of a
>                     rosebush, ending with
>                     the line about throwing his boots into the sea so
>                     that he might not
>                     walk shod on holy land.
>
>                 Also a favorite of mine, no one will be surprised to
>                 hear, along with the other set piece about the forms
>                 of governance.
>
>                 For some friends of mine who don't like Wolfe, the
>                 style is what puts them off.  They find it verbose.
>                  No accounting for tastes.
>
>
>             Verbose, but precise, and always with a sting. Much like
>             Avram Davidson.
>
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