Why NOT "A screaming comes across the sky"?

[Chris Broderick]

Agreed.  I've not regretted reading any of his work
(and believe me, I've read a lot of it).  This idea
that nothing else satisfies after a writer creates a
masterpiece strikes me as strange.  Certainly nothing
that Melville wrote before or after Moby Dick has been
as masterful as that.  But I was more than satisfied
by The Confidence Man, and for that matter I quite
enjoyed Wolfe's last two story collections (Innocents
Aboard and Starwater Strains).  And I expect that I
will enjoy AtP whether it is as astonishing as GR or
not (though of course, one hopes against hope that it
will be).

I can't think of any writer, living or dead who has
been capable of creating masterpiece after masterpiece
without faltering (well, maybe Homer, but she's an
exception).  Even Shakespeare (supposedly) wrote The
Two Noble Kinsmen.

-Chris

--- Steven <mcquaryq at comcast.net> wrote:

> 	That's the bitch of writing a masterpiece --
> nothing else will ever  
> satisfy.  His subsequent multi-volume novels have
> their moments but  
> never the penetrating atmosphere of Severian's
> world.
> 
> 	Steve--his first story collection' The Island of
> Doctor Death and  
> Other Stories and Other Stories' (no typo)  is his
> best short fiction.
> 
> 
> On Aug 31, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Chris Broderick wrote:
> 
> > Gene Wolfe is a fine writer.  You probably read
> The
> > Book of the New Sun, which is his best work.
> 
> 


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