<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Me too!</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, May 29, 2014 8:43 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3280136304"><div><div dir="ltr">Glad he liked Little, Big. Makes me happy.</div>
<div class="yiv3280136304yqt6116250832" id="yiv3280136304yqtfd39654"><div class="yiv3280136304gmail_quote">On May 29, 2014 8:34 AM, "Piotr Szczęsny" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:neternalz@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:neternalz@gmail.com">neternalz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv3280136304gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">I think he means Isaac Singer, author of "Shadows on the hudson" and "The Magician of Lublin". Also I checked - Singer was still alive in 1983.</div><div class="yiv3280136304gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv3280136304gmail_quote">
2014-05-29 13:45 GMT+02:00 Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com">danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv3280136304gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">I just saw him mention King for the first time the other day (at least I think he meant<i> Stephen</i> King). It's in <i>Castle of Days</i>, a very clever little self-interview piece called 'Lone Wolfe' (from 1983 it says). Here's the relevant excerpt:<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"><div><b>Q: You have the reputation of being one of the nicest guys in the field. We both know you're a hyena on its hind legs. How have you fooled everyone?</b></div><div><b>A: By keeping my mouth shut when I read garbage.</b></div>
<div><b>Q: Have you found that difficult?</b></div><div><b>A: No. I'm constantly running into people who've read bad books clean to the end. I admire them more than I can say, but I can't do that - when I get shit in my eyes I close them fast and cry.</b></div>
<div><b>Q: You also throw the book at the wall and scare the dog.</b></div><div><b>A: Yeah. And then when somebody asks me how I liked the book, I say I haven't read it, because it's really not fair for me to judge without finishing the book. Maybe the last nine-tenths is marvelous. But I doubt it.</b></div>
<div><b>Q: Leaving aside the people you've already named [earlier he'd said he'd read a lot of Lafferty, Le Guin, Knight, Wilhelm, and Budrys and also thought<i> Little, Big</i> was 'an education in modern fantasy all by itself'], who<i> doesn't </i>make you toss the book at the wall?</b></div>
<div><b>A: Lord Dunsany, Chesterton--</b></div><div><b>Q: I know, Dickens. Let's keep the dead out of this.</b></div><div><b>A: Ellison, Leiber, King, Singer, lots of good people.</b></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Then 'they' change the subject. I assume he's talking about SK. If so, that's a fairly ringing endorsement from Wolfe - SK's fiction is not garbage and thus doesn't merit being thrown against the wall! </div>
<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Does anyone know who Singer could be?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>-DOJP</div></div><div class="yiv3280136304gmail_extra"><div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv3280136304gmail_quote">On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Piotr Szczęsny <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:neternalz@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:neternalz@gmail.com">neternalz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="yiv3280136304gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I only know one Stephen King in Wolfe works. In "From the desk of Gilmer C. Merton" where he is clearly mentioned as horror story writer - Steven E. Presley. </div>
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<div class="yiv3280136304gmail_quote">2014-05-29 12:02 GMT+02:00 António Pedro Marques <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:entonio@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:entonio@gmail.com">entonio@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div><div><br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv3280136304gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Gene Wolfe mentions King a number of times. Some of those are clearly Stephen King. SK is usually taken as an entertainer rather than a Writer (not by me, since my knowledge on the matter is nil). Has Wolfe's endorsement been analyzed? (F.i., people will discuss his appreciation of Lafferty.)<br clear="none">
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