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The list is quite comatose. Op 6-12-2020 om 14:54 schreef Fernando Gouvea:…
06 Dec 2020, 15:16
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I read it as well and everything in the book seems to be a riddle. How many Erns are there, is the story line mixed up, what is in the green box, what happens to the key Ern take…
18 Jul 2020, 15:33
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Maybe politeness is a question of style and not necessarily correlated with an attitude of fundamental human respect. Often it is a way to make a distinction between the man of v…
30 Jan 2020, 21:49
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This line sounds a bit like Ecclesiastes without the vanity part. Op 30-1-2020 om 19:56 schreef Ryan Dunn:…
30 Jan 2020, 21:20
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A Liberal or a Psycho gene? Op 30-1-2020 om 20:48 schreef Charles Gillingham:…
30 Jan 2020, 21:15
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Like the fable of the Fox and the Grapes there is the maxim that the Grass is always greener on the other side of the Fence. Both relate to the ways in which the mechanisms of de…
30 Jan 2020, 13:18
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Maybe Barnes is a case of the fox and the grapes. The fox cannot get the grapes he wanted. Afterwards he says they were sour anyway which they were not. Op 29-1-2020 om 23:21 sc…
29 Jan 2020, 23:02
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I believe the politically correct accuse Wolfe likewise of being a christian misogynist. To compare Wolfe and Heinlein? in the ways they give expression to political ideas proves…
29 Jan 2020, 13:06
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Like so many he 'evolved' from a liberal to a conservative point of view politically while getting older. Churchill made a famous remark about this phenomenon but in this case He…
28 Jan 2020, 16:43
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Hi, Don't you buy books through search engines like Eurobuch and AddAll or a platform like Amazon? I order often from Amazon UK, Germany and Abe books. In fact both new and seco…
02 Oct 2019, 19:28
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Thanks, the special F & SF issue dedicated tot Wolfe is in my possession. I never read it though. I am not a great fan of Folio editions. For instance the Kipling Short Stories I…
21 Sep 2019, 21:43
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Hi there, I just read Uncaged a story by Wolfe collected in 'Rags and Bones' about a shape shifting lady. It seems a rather straightforward story but maybe it isn't. Neil 'Ameri…
21 Sep 2019, 13:49
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As did I, thanks! Another year. Op 6-9-2019 om 13:14 schreef PAUL RYDEEN:…
06 Sep 2019, 11:38
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I got the interlibrary string and thanks for the response. Probably everything is ok now. Op 1-5-2019 om 13:20 schreef Dave Lebling:…
01 May 2019, 11:31
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I have the Charles Scribner's Sons edition of Fifth Head (New York, 1972). Is that one corrupted as well? Op 28-4-2019 om 01:16 schreef Marc Aramini:…
28 Apr 2019, 15:16
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The text is a citation/paraphrase or strongly reminiscent of Psalm 90:2-6 Op 16-4-2019 om 22:56 schreef Robert Pirkola:…
16 Apr 2019, 23:05
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What a shock, but his life and work are complete now. I wonder how Marc is taking it. Op 16-4-2019 om 01:33 schreef Jane Delawney:…
15 Apr 2019, 23:52
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Thanks Op 3-10-2018 om 15:02 schreef Robert Pirkola:…
03 Oct 2018, 15:37
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The names Arabella and Colette refer both via via vaguely to male catholic saints: Gregory the Great and Nicolas. Relevant? Red and Blue are primary colors: yellow is missing. Is…
01 Oct 2018, 21:56
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There is also one in which he looks at the moon of the jungle planet which is covered in ice. That too is because of the water. There would not be an ice and fire mythology - naz…
01 Oct 2018, 14:46
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Great work Marc. Could it be relevant that time is not mentioned at all by Roglich, instead temperature differentials are introduced when space is displaced. Very weird. There m…
30 Sep 2018, 11:07
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Great, Marc, hope you spell my name right. 8-) Op 1-7-2018 om 08:51 schreef Marc Aramini:…
01 Jul 2018, 13:12
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Bitdefender blocked your page because of phishing. Op 26-6-2018 om 08:08 schreef michael.o.thayer at gmail.com:…
26 Jun 2018, 09:57
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Just being lame I suppose. Op 2-6-2018 om 04:07 schreef Marc Aramini:…
02 Jun 2018, 08:07
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Dutch Sinterklaas has a servant Black Piet usually done in blackface to the horror of anti racism activists. It has been quite an issue the last few years whereas before nobody s…
23 May 2018, 08:37
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Great, a minor breakthrough. Another gold nugget. http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/apollonius.php Is there an illusion dispelled somewhere in relation to the house? Op 23-5-201…
23 May 2018, 08:06
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Or possibly all at one as in the scenario that a deformed slave is a substitute for the divine king who is about to be slaughtered. Mock fighting is often a part of the proceedin…
03 Apr 2018, 17:10
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Thanks, This link works. Op 3-4-2018 om 15:58 schreef Marc Aramini:…
03 Apr 2018, 16:25
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I agree with your first remark. I thought you meant animal sacrifice came first. As to your second remark I'm not sure. People get worked up in a sacrificial context. It may eve…
03 Apr 2018, 13:49
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I agree with your first remark. I thought you meant animal sacrifice came first. As to your second remark I'm not sure. People get worked up in a sacrificial context. It may eve…
03 Apr 2018, 13:49
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I cannot reach the site. How is Wolfe's health by the way? Op 3-4-2018 om 05:13 schreef Marc Aramini:…
03 Apr 2018, 12:46
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It is hypothesized in anthropology that human sacrifice came first and all other forms of animal and plant sacrifice came later. Animal husbandry and food planting supposedly too…
03 Apr 2018, 12:14
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Both group-internal violence as in human sacrifice or external violence as in war are both embedded in myth and ritual. Nowadays, propaganda and scapegoating groups of people are…
02 Apr 2018, 09:13
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Roberts is also disparaging to Wolfe fans because he thinks they do more wrong than right by delving deeply into 'the matter of Wolfe'. My own impression is he used Wolfe as a? g…
18 Mar 2018, 01:59
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Thanks anyway. It has been some time I read the books and much of them alas went over my head. When are your books coming out? Op 7-3-2018 om 00:41 schreef Marc Aramini:…
07 Mar 2018, 00:19
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I meant to say it isn't obvious that a lictor is an executioner as well as a servitor of Mithras which connection the Greek word ????????? supplies. It would be interesting to kn…
17 Feb 2018, 23:56
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The link is : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lictor The only link to the Mithras cult I found was in Liddell & Scott's dictionary but without any specifics; I didn't find links to…
17 Feb 2018, 15:55
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Hi Keith, Probably you will make a lot of errors as everybody does who tries to make sense of Wolfes books. They have an impenetrable character almost esoteric so don't worry ab…
18 Jan 2018, 00:06
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I could not find triannulis. I did find annulus. Trianullis might mean with three annulluses https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/annulus#Latin The translations of annulus on the wike…
07 Jan 2018, 11:37
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And skotos is greek for darkness. Op 5-1-2018 om 21:41 schreef Marc Aramini:…
07 Jan 2018, 11:05
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You might not know this but Zwart is the dutch word for Black. Op 5-1-2018 om 21:41 schreef Marc Aramini:…
07 Jan 2018, 11:03
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Don't forget the plastic gloves. Op 17-11-2017 om 16:00 schreef Eric Bourland:…
17 Nov 2017, 17:22
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At the time I'm reading Porius? by John Cowper Powys and stories by Borges and Pierre Michon. Porius is a bit hard to get through. I find I'm more appreciative of short stories a…
16 Nov 2017, 09:23
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We had a discussion about the meaning of reclones. It is maybe an edited reprint of a clone with a limited capability like a program that limits his freedom in order to make him/…
12 Nov 2017, 15:12
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Everybody is holding his breath for Marc to finish. Op 12-11-2017 om 11:55 schreef Paul Zinn-Justin:…
12 Nov 2017, 11:35
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Putting my hands on my mouth again. Op 29-9-2017 om 19:24 schreef Marc Aramini:…
29 Sep 2017, 17:27
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They may be colonists in the sense of random settlers in another country, like ex-pats. But not in the sense of a imperialistic colonization scheme such as in Cerberus. There is …
29 Sep 2017, 17:18
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Probably Urth is a galactic backwater visited by aliens, some of them like the sea monster living on Urth. No colonization scheme I think. Urth's former glory is destined to be r…
27 Sep 2017, 21:12
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