Digest urth.v001.n021

Paul C Duggan · 27 May 1997, 12:15 · from urth-v0001.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: Paul C Duggan <pduggan at world.std.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v001.n021
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:15:35
Message-ID: <urth-v0001-0081 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0001/0081.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

> From: Geoff Alex Cohen <gac at cs.duke.edu>
>=20
> I was there, and got to ask a bunch of questions.  There didn't
> seem to be many others in the chat - someone logged on as
> "Hierodule", someone named "KevinM" and someone named "Bluejack",
> as I recall.

Heirodule was me. A bit pretentious, but hey.

> SPOILERS, OF COURSE:
>=20
> "New Sun" takes place 1000-2000 years in the future (but this can't
> be right!).

That was wolfe's answer to the second part of my question. I asked How far
in earth's future were the new sun books set, and how much time is bewteen
Typhon aSd severian.  Wolfe said that the books don't explicitly say, and
that 1000-2000 years was his guess but he'd have to reread to be sure (!)

I think he was answering the two parts of the question with two answers.
He made similar "complex" answers to other questions. The transcript might
make it more obvious that that was how he answered. (No transcript as of
12:14 PM EDT 5/27/97

"Heirodule"

"I am an impure thinker. I am hurt, swayed, shaken, |  paul           + | +
elated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted, and I    |                 --|--
have to transmit my mental experiences lest I die." |                 + | +
                     --  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy    |  pduggan at world.std.com

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