Digest urth.v030.n033

David Lebling · 07 Dec 2000, 17:10 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: "David Lebling" <dlebling at ucentric.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v030.n033
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:10:55
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> From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
> I remember one reviewer writting something like "Gene Wolfe stands at the
> bridge as the critics come by one by one to try to figure out Castleview,
> and all are knocked into the moat."  (The reviewer's sentence was much
> better than that.)

Gene Wolfe: He who would pass over the Bridge of Death, answer me these
questions three!
Reviewer: I will answer!

GW: Who was Severian's grandmother?
R: Dorcas!

GW: Who was Apu Punchau?
R: Severian!

GW: What was going on at the end of _Castleview_?
R: Um, uh, geez, no idea...

**BOING!**

With all due apologies to Monty Python and GW.

    Dave Lebling
    (aka vizcacha)



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