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I've also been reading a book entitled _The Heads of Cerberus_, by "Francis Stevens" (a pseudonym for Gertrude Bennett). It was originally published in 1919, I would guess in maga…
01 Jun 1998, 16:02
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I just finished rereading _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_, so the recent turn of the list's collective mind towards that topic is timely for me. In addition to the comments I've post…
01 Jun 1998, 15:22
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Robert Borski writes: Actually he just "glanced at the first few pages..." I think the officer puts down the journal because he remembers "Marsch's" changed handwriting (i. e. VR…
01 Jun 1998, 14:27
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I had assumed it's a typo, as it doesn't seem to make any sense as written. But I'm not 100% sure. In addition to the joke at the end, the way the bowling ball's denial is descri…
31 May 1998, 15:53
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Palliser's subsequent book, entitled "Betrayals" IIRC, is also rather Wolfeian, in that it consists of a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, the connections between which mu…
28 May 1998, 17:02
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Quite aside from my own contributions, I enjoyed the discussion of "Suzanne Delage." It provided some variety from the discussions of a few major works, especially BOTNS (not that…
24 May 1998, 14:56
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Several hours after posting this, I realized it made me sound as if I thought that anyone seeing my reasoning would be convinced by it, which wasn't what I had meant at all. What …
24 May 1998, 14:55
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I wasn't worried about being misquoted. What did concern me slightly was the possibility that my conclusions might be given without the reasoning behind them, making them appear…
23 May 1998, 16:39
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I think it's a great idea (though I'd like to know how much of the original posts will be cut). It was indeed fascinating to see how many divergent interpretations there were of s…
21 May 1998, 11:16
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I think it could be. According to Krug's _The Shaping of the American High School, 1880-1920_, extracurricular activities of the type the narrator describes were found in that per…
13 May 1998, 11:08
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This might be true for another author, but not for Wolfe. I think my theory is at least as strongly implied by the text as is Weer's ghostly state in _Peace_, which we know Wolfe …
11 May 1998, 13:02
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I would recommend highly to any Wolfe fan who hasn't already read them _Engine Summer_, _Little, Big_, _Aegypt_, _Love and Sleep_, and "Great Work of Time" (in the collection _Nove…
10 May 1998, 13:25
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I was lying in bed this morning and came to the conclusion that this was correct. Based on it, I developed a reading of the story. It explains the text; it is consistent with W…
10 May 1998, 13:17
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I don't know how Borgesian it is, but there's a story by Henry James whose title I forget based on that very premise: that (as best I can recall) there are two people who somehow n…
09 May 1998, 20:48
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Which? The "dazzlingly beautiful ones"? That's certainly what one interpretation of Suzanne's daughter's appearance, but see below. I hate to pour cold water on your theories, e…
08 May 1998, 16:03
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I hadn't thought about those works, but THE CASTLE is an obvious source for THERE ARE DOORS. Klamm, of course, is directly from THE CASTLE, and there are parallels between the sit…
27 Apr 1998, 14:33
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I don't know. The idea just came to me when I reread the sidhe story a couple of days ago, and it's been quite a while since I last reread the whole book, so I just threw it out a…
19 Apr 1998, 15:58
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A recent example of this (though on a lesser aesthetic plane than Fifth Head) is two short stories, "Bluesberry Jam" and "Ain't You Most Done?" The first of these appeared in an an…
17 Apr 1998, 11:01
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I actually hadn't thought about this at all before Rostrum asked the question (shows what a careful reader I am) but I now can see several parallels in addition to this one. 1) We…
16 Apr 1998, 10:07
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It has been several years since I read _Book_ and _Urth_, but I seem to recall a passage in one of these in which Severian is told that this is precisely what has happened, that th…
29 Mar 1998, 14:09
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In _Strokes_, John Clute wrote "it wasn't until ... Peter Nicholls wrote an essay on [_TFHoC_] for an American compendium that the full plot and thematic integrity of that savage n…
28 Feb 1998, 11:29
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What happened to the list website at moonmilk.volcano.org? I got an email from someone who tried to access it and got an error message, so I tried it myself and the same thing hap…
22 Feb 1998, 16:46
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I have to admit, I hadn't realized there are so many, but it does seem to me you've overstated a bit: Should having died and been resurrected be considered in the same category as…
24 Oct 1997, 14:45
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This reminds me of a topic that I've long been intending to bring up: Wolfe's humor. Most of Wolfe's work strikes me as utterly solemn (though there are undoubtedly things I'm mis…
24 Oct 1997, 14:34
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This is the first time I've posted to this list, but I've enjoyed lurking a lot. As long as FLF is being discussed, I'll repeat some questions I posted to rasfw a year ago and n…
30 Sep 1997, 15:19
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kmaroney at crossover.com (Kevin J. Maroney) writes: I accept this; but I think it would be a Good Thing if somebody (not me; I don't know the book well enough) were to spell out the…
16 Nov 1996, 18:51
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I recently reread _Peace_ by Gene Wolfe. I accept that Weer is dead, but I'm not sure I found all the evidence for this, or that I fully understand what's there. Here is the inte…
18 Sep 1996, 00:42
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SPOILERS straight at email.unc.edu (Michael Straight) writes: That's my interpretation too. While we're on the subject, I have to admit that certain aspects of the ending, and of t…
14 Sep 1996, 01:54
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SPOILERS Maybe there's a subtlety I'm missing (it's been a long time since I've read it) but my guess would be that the "sign" is just the literal sign saying FREE LIVE FREE refer…
13 Sep 1996, 01:42
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