Gene Wolfe's Pants!

stilskin · 06 Aug 2000, 05:33 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

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From: stilskin at sff.net
Subject: (whorl) Gene Wolfe's Pants!
Date: 6 Aug 2000 05:33:46
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Or what holds them up, anyway.  It's been suggested to me that the rest of =
the list my enjoy the following:

Along the lines of writing as therapy, and my last post mentioning Gene Wol=
fe's preference to "stay down in the basement with the demons," on this sam=
e panel at Readercon, Wolfe startled his fellow panelists and those of us i=
n the audience by suddenly announcing:  "Now I will take off my pants!"  Bu=
t rather than channeling the spirit of Gardner Dozois, he was actually mere=
ly removing his belt buckle (Terminus Est!) to pass around for general peru=
sal.  Engraved into the metal was language certifying the wearer to perform=
 exorcisms.  As to the significance of such language appearing on a belt bu=
ckle, I'll leave that to the Freudians in the audience!

Falcon

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