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To me UotNS stands as tall as its predecessors -- different, but intellectually delightful and emotionally satisfying in its own ways. The Yesod sequences, the cleverness of t…
25 Oct 2006, 20:50
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Embellishment? (Marco Polo's "Travels", anyone?) As far as the unexpected yet coming-to-pass incident of the flood, this could be drawn from the collective unconscious (eithe…
02 Oct 2006, 12:56
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Well, it's certainly everyone's right to appreciate art however they would like to appreciate it. ;) And I used to hold this kind of "art is communication" (or at least "consc…
22 Sep 2006, 12:41
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I recommend reading an excellent essay by Carl Jung on just this matter, entitled "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry". It can be found in some volumes excerpt…
21 Sep 2006, 23:10
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I for one would prefer wiki.urth.net. Better to keep everything in one place. ;-) Of course, that decision also depends on the administrator of urth.net. Were all of the other i…
06 Sep 2006, 12:23
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Er, also the main character is a torturer? ;) Wandering around on his own account to boot. Not quite as family-friendly as hobbits, dwarves, and elves journeying merrily toget…
15 Aug 2006, 13:23
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Well regardless of what Wolfe himself says there about the Spartan ceremony being the main antecedent, in real life there is rarely a single cause of depression, and the text cer…
10 Jul 2006, 12:51
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"The Increate maintains all things in order surely; and the theologians say light is his shadow. Must it not be then that in darkness order grows ever less, flowers leaping from…
02 Jun 2006, 03:55
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Excepting Siamese cats, at least..…
02 May 2006, 20:06
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A good book I read explaining this and related areas is _Quantum Reality_, by Nick Herbert. It's a few years old, maybe there's something better now, but it will get the job d…
07 Apr 2006, 18:23
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Agreed. But there's still a certain pleasure in imagining the more direct connection..…
29 Aug 2005, 08:13
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... [more archive URLs removed..] I realize this topic has been discussed (to death?) by the list before and also that Wolfe's own answers have tended to quash the idea of a…
29 Aug 2005, 05:49
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New translation, hmm.. I just read part of it at Amazon: Old (Willa and Edwin Muir) ---- It was late in the evening when K. arrived. The village was deep in snow. The Castle …
16 Jun 2005, 11:01
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Hi, It's been a while since I've read it so I won't answer this here, but, if you haven't already, read _The Castle_ by Kafka. It really deepens the experience, and a lot of th…
10 Jun 2005, 12:29
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