This Week in Google Alerts: more _Land Across_

Gerry Quinn · 29 Dec 2013, 18:08 · from 2013-December.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:08:57 -0000
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: more _Land Across_
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From: Gwern Branwen

http://jdbookreview.com/gene-wolfe-no-comparison/ interview:

'Gene Wolfe easily admits to being a supernatural being.  How else to 
explain his famous comment that editor Damon Knight, whose ORBIT series of 
anthologies helped launch Wolfe?s career, ?grew me from a bean???'

Hmm, if we are to assume it was a black bean, it would not make him the 
nicest kind of supernatural being!  [I'm assuming that the story of the 
black beans cast into the sea in BotNS is meant to refer to the origin of 
Abaia, Erebus and the rest.]

- Gerry Quinn

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