From: James Stewart <james.stewart@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) A question
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 23:45:12 


[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

At 02:35 AM 1/21/97 +0000, Fernando Q. Gouvea wrote:
>
>[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]
>
>**** On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:07:21 -0500, James Stewart
<james.stewart@worldnet.att.net> said:
>
>James> All of this talk of Exodus now is making me desperate to read it,
>James> but before I do I need to know something. Do I need to invest the
>James> time in rereading the first books before this one will make any
>James> sense?
>
>I certainly did reread the first three books; it's very helpful. Given the
>long gap between the third and fourth books, it's easy to forget too many
>of those important details.
>
>

Well, now I have my reading set forth for me for the next month or so.

I have to reread the first two books, the third, and then the forth. 

By the way, there is a possible half-assed justification for Lamarck based
upon Gary Wills "Wisdom of the Genes," but that is very off-topic.


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