<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 10/25/11, Gerry Quinn <I><gerry@bindweed.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Gerry Quinn <gerry@bindweed.com><BR>Subject: Re: (urth) Words and Such art<BR>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><BR>Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 12:10 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=kierkegaurdian@gmail.com href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com">Antonin Scriabin</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">> The art for Wolfe's books is so hit and miss! The Richard Bober illustrations </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">> for the Long Sun books are awesome, and particular favorites of mine. This </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">> <A href="http://www.lwcurrey.com/pictures/114676.jpg" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.lwcurrey.com/pictures/114676.jpg</A>. As I recall, Severian was</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">> the opposite of nonchalant (chalant?) at that particular scene.<BR></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">That was the first Wolfe book I ever saw, I was like in the fourth grade or so and my father's co-worker gave me all his used sci-fi magazines and SFbook club hardback books after he was done with them. Claw of the conciliator, book club hardback with that illustration - I had to go look for Shadow and buy a used paperback to read it. </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">I might read it on the train just for the snickers, then I could start extolling his literary virtues to the disbelief of my fellow passengers.</DIV></DIV></td></tr></table>