Sorry if this had already been flagged up on the board. If it did, I missed it somehow and I just got notified of it in Wolfe google alerts today. Anyway, THANK YOU very much Matthew Keeley for hunting up that clip (and Frank for asking friends)! Turns out it's <i>Lake</i> of the Long Sun that's mentioned, not <i>Litany</i> (as the Hoof & Hide blog had said). I got so fanboy excited when I saw this, I immediately transcribed it:<div>
<br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bookseller:</b> Can I help you?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Man:</b> I hope so.
The lady here is looking for a book called <i>Lake of the Long Sun</i> by Gene Wolfe.
Do you know him?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bookseller:</b> Are you kidding me? I worship him! And a girl as beautiful as you who likes Sci
Fi is a girl after my own heart. I’m Ed
by the way.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Woman:</b> Olivia.
Sorry, taken.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bookseller:</b> All the best ones are. Story of my life. Ok, I’ve got the entire Solar Cycle, first
edition. You want signed or unsigned?</p><div><br></div><div>And from there they ask him if he knows about a cuneiform symbol that they show him on a piece of paper and the clip ends.</div><div><br></div><div>So my guess is that this was a simple nod from the series writers to the s.f. community - maybe a little test of how erudite the bookseller's (and their audience's) knowledge is of one of the truly great works of modern s.f. (the Solar Cycle) - and that the reference doesn't really have anything to do with the plot. Still, NICE TOUCH! And how cool is it that out of all the authors of s.f. they chose Wolfe, and that they chose a volume from <i>Long</i> Sun rather than the more obvious <i>New</i> Sun, and that he refers to the ENTIRE series, the Solar Cycle? And that the dude says he worships him, ha! Amazing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That made my week.</div><div><br></div><div>-DOJP</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:34 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span>I think this was already described a few weeks back in this list, and a toob link provided. </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Daniel Petersen <<a href="mailto:danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <<a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net" target="_blank">urth@lists.urth.net</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8:13 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> (urth) Wolfe's Long Sun
mentioned on Fox TV program this week<br> </font> </div><div><div class="h5"> <br>
<div><div><a href="http://www.hoofandhide.net/gene-wolfe-mentioned-on-episode-of-fringe#comment" target="_blank">http://www.hoofandhide.net/gene-wolfe-mentioned-on-episode-of-fringe#comment</a>
</div><div><br></div>Folks, I don't have a TV and I live in Britain, so I don't think I have any way of seeing this. Can somebody kindly give a fairly detailed account of how Wolfe's <i>Litany of the Long Sun </i>was mentioned on this episode, in what context, for what reason, etc.?<div>
<br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div>DOJP</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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