From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) revelatory message/converting dislike
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 16:04:22 +0100

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From: "Michael Andre-Driussi" 
>
> But still, here we put it to the test.  If there is a mass of testamonial
> evidence to show that such things have happened with relative frequency,
> then I will have to adjust my reality-map accordingly.
>


It happened to me.   On my first reading of 5HC as a young twentysomething I
thought if a fine bit of writing but rather confused,  fragmentary plotwise.
The depths bypassed me entirely.    It was not until I met other readers
that the book was opened up for me.

Mea cupla, mea maxima culpa: but it was Wolfe taught me that SF books
*could* be like that.   Scratch that, it was Wolfe who taught me *books*
could be like that.

    hartshorn.









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