Thrown for a to the wolves

I’ve always been fond of the phrase “loop the lupine.” —As I recall(ed), I’d first seen it in a blurb on the cover of a Gene Wolfe paperback: “Gene Wolfe is the master of loop-the-lupine writing,” or some such, from Philip José Farmer, I was pretty sure. It caught my eye, and my imagination, as you might expect of someone so drawn to the practice of talking outside the glass. Some time ago, I tried to nail down the origin of the phrase—none of the Gene Wolfe books in the house were thusly blurbed, not Castleview or any of the Severians, or the Suns of various shapes, not The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, not Free Live Free or Peace, and so I turned to Google, which was better then than it is now, but still: I couldn’t find the actual origin of the phrase. Just a handful of quotes, and echoes, enough to somehow leave me with the notion that it was maybe coined by Algis Budrys, in one of his review columns for F&SF, that, yes, may well have been mined for a…