I'll be looking that up
I tried to send this as a PM but you apparently have me blocked (possibly stemming from some contentious previous Trump-related thread before the election that I seem to recall generated some hurt feelings with many posters). I just wanted to warn you about Wolfe. He is not a normal human being so it is perilous to view his work as if he were.
I'm fairly certain that Gene Wolfe has an eidetic memory (much like the central character in his most renown work aka the Severian Series) so those of us who don't have one cannot hope to measure up to his literary standards. Wolfe's ability to create a consistent, concise yet elaborate narrative / story no doubt benefits from his capability to recall information in great detail.
As an amateur writer without a photographic memory myself, I view Wolfe the way I imagine a person who does an occasional 5K run regards an Olympic-class marathoner. It's not that he's verbose or florid so much as that he doubles-back on his story line and does occasional back-flips and hand stands that are very effective at creating the moods, ideas and other effects he strives to manifest.
Ursula K. LeGuin (one of my all-time favorite authors of any genre) called Wolfe, "Our modern Melville"! High praise indeed from someone whose own writing skills are so superlative as to make people like me simply resign myself to the realization that I will almost certainly always remain a "hobbyist" who writes for personal catharsis / amusement while others like Wolfe, LeGuin and possibly yourself, rightfully claim the title of "author".
