Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:49:22 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> >
>> >Michael Walsh wrote:
>> >
>> >> [quoting someone unattributed]
>> >> >On a less livid note, I've tried in vain to read Gene Wolfe; I =
think =
>> I'm
>> >> >missing a critical lit'ry allele. I also can't read anything longer =
=
>> than =
>> >> a
>> >> >short story in present tense; it irritates me.
>> >>
>> >> Keith Roberts did - I think - two  stories in the second person.  =
=
>> Rather =
>> >> present tense . . .
>> >
>> >Brad Solomon wrote an entire *novel* (mystery -- not SF) in present-ten=
se =
>> -- and
>> >carried it off so well that it took me most of the first chapter to
>> >notice/realize what he'd done.
>> >
>> >--Ted White
>>
>> Entire novel?  Now that's impressive.
>
>Yup.  One of only three novels the man ever published -- and all of them =
are
>excellent.
>
>But I'm getting weirded out by something, Mike:  Your responses to the =
other
>posts to this list (including mine) *precede* the posts to which you're
>replying.  Is the clock setting on your computer a bit ahead?
>
>--Ted White

Well, the clock on my PC is actually 5 minutes behind and wishes to remain =
in the past.

mjw