endymion32

Yes, please answer this. There are still many of my generation (say gen. X and Y) who consider him to be the most important writer of our time. Not because of the obvious points: the erudition, the long sentences, the footnotes. But because of the compassion, the purity of intent, and, above all else, the heart-breaking beauty of the prose. Thanks!

Awesome. The best-read man in America mentions Gene Wolfe.

A null set? Which one? :)

(This phrase, instead of the usual "the null set", leapt out at the mathematician in me.)