Digest urth.v030.n033

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.)

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 urth-errors at lists1.ba.best.com wrote: From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com> Adam Stephanides wrote:

Which, to return to an earlier point, is not something a "very conservative writer" would be likely to do; in fact, it's exactly the sort of thing the modernist authors of the early twentieth century were preoccupied by. Nor is it generally the sort of thing people mean when they talk about "putting the story first."

You seem to be pointing at a kind of "experimental" that was very experimental indeed in the 1920s, and that most of the pomos would sniff at as mere "modernism." And it is indeed putting the story The paragraph in full: One moment, please. Let me stand and walk to the window; let me put this broken elm branch -- shaped as though it were meant to be the antler of a wooden deer, such a deer as might be found, possibly, under one of the largest outdoor Christmas trees -- upon the fire. Ladies, this was not what I wanted. Ladies, I wish to know only if in my condition I should exercise or remain still; because if the answer is that I must exercise I will go looking for my scout knife.