On Reader Input

James Jordan · 18 Nov 2002, 15:17 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at cox.net>
Subject: (urth) On Reader Input
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:17:04 -0600
Message-ID: <urth-v0211-2145 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0211/2145.txt.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

At 11:48 PM 11/15/2002, you wrote:

>Remember that David Hartwell apparently thought that the original four
>volumes of the NS needed some sort of coda, which led Wolfe to write URTH.=
 I
>don't know, but I suspect, that Wolfe felt some obligation to tie the LS a=
nd
>SS series to NS. Wolfe corresponds with various members of this list, has
>answered questions submitted by list members about the LS books, and was
>probably aware before he wrote it that many of his most faithful readers
>*wanted* Sev to make an appearance in SS. I feel almost certain that the
>business about Sev's "sister" in SS was a direct bow in this general
>direction.
>
>-Roy

         Along these lines, for fun: A pastor friend of mine, praising Long=20
Sun, told me that while reading those books he found himself asking himself=20
"what would Silk say" when he was doing pastoral counselling. I passed this=20
on to Gene as high praise. Then my friend and I both noticed Horn saying=20
just this same thing to himself somewhere in the Short Sun books! (Horn,=20
Silkhorn, Hornsilk, Whoever....)
         I'm satisfied with "sticking Severian in for fun" as an=20
explanation. Maybe there's more to it, but that's enough. Maybe some of=20
those on this list have not read all of Wolfe, but he has plenty of=20
humorous and fun short stories (think of the story about the headless=20
people), and doing things "just for fun" is completely Wolfean.

Nutria


--=20

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net