(urth) Some possibly old hat Qs from someone who has been offlist for nearly a decade

[Antonin Scriabin]

This is the first I have heard of A Borrowed Man ... is there any more
information, or is the novel in its very earliest stages?

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well ... I really like Andre-druissi.  His lexicon urthus is great.  My
> issue with gate of horn is pretty simple - while Borski goes way too far
> and ignores theme in ephemeral conclusions, this one seems very
> conservative in drawing conclusions but will still posit some strange
> interpretational stances. The time lines and the long sun commentary are
> very useful.  I can see Roy's influence on its surface presentation.  I
> feel the biggest omission in his rough draft was not acknowledging that
> Silk's staff was a liana.  I offered a whole lot of advice on a very late
> proof copy but I don't know if any was included.  ( have not checked the
> final version yet).  If anyone wants that list of errata-comments I made I
> will email it off list- I don't want it online anywhere in case Michael
> decides to do a second edition.
>
> I am just glad there are books published on Wolfe scholarship.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Decanus1284 <decanus1284 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Regarding Gate of Horn, throw it out there. I have been waiting for some
> discussion on it myself.
>
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> Subject: (urth) Some possibly old hat Qs from someone who has been offlist
> for nearly a decade
> From: Brian Doherty <brianmdoherty at gmail.com>
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> CC:
>
>
> I'm about a third through HOME FIRES and while it is not thrilling me the
> way Wolfe usually does (though I hope backfilling thru commentary here
> might illuminate it in pleasing ways) and realizing that when I'm done with
> this book, more than two years old, that I'm out of new Wolfe novels. This
> seems like a long gap for the modern Wolfe----do we know him to be working
> on anything? Has anything new been announced? Do we know him to be
> "retired"? Forgive if this is all old hat to the rest.
>
> Also just finished GATE OF HORN....has there been long discussion of that
> here? Would like to check out before throwing in tattered and repetitive
> two cents.
>
> Brian Doherty
>
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