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I would imagine that the lack of Lafferty discussion is due to the fact that although Wolfe and Lafferty share similar worldviews and Wolfe is a great admirer of Lafferty's works, …
16 Feb 1999, 12:19
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And of course, Proust's REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST must go on the shelf. Suzanne Delage of course, and a major influence on narrative structure of PEACE and BOTNS. Also, maybe t…
26 Jan 1999, 16:58
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Wow... You head into the hills and lose email for a few weeks, and the list just explodes with stuff... Anyway, thoughts from holiday reading: Has anyone ever noticed that THE…
01 Jan 1999, 16:15
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Argh. I now have an electronic copy of the paper my friend wrote (which is interesting, although not exactly what I'd understood him to say it was--for instance, the St. Peter con…
09 Nov 1998, 14:07
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THE LANGUAGES OF PAO: Good book, I'm sure Wolfe's read it. I think it was somewhat spoiled for me, though--I read it just after finishing Pinker's THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT for a cla…
31 Oct 1998, 13:16
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I was talking to a friend at lunch who took John Kessel's Fantasy Literature class last year. When I took the class several years ago, he taught Shadow & Claw (which prompted my t…
19 Oct 1998, 14:55
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Wolfe says in the intro. to Storeys from the Old Hotel that the your interpretation is what he was aiming at. Doesn't mean other interpretations can't hold water, of course, but W…
16 Oct 1998, 15:23
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I think this article, also just sent in, might possibly be more relevant to our Severian. Our Sev. definitely is an "Emperor" (I think the symbolic links between Autarchs and Roma…
16 Oct 1998, 14:51
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I just sent the article to the online CE. Here it is, for what it's worth (doesn't suggest any new interpretations of BOTNS to me, but maybe I'm just not being creative enough...)…
16 Oct 1998, 14:14
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Hmm... Rereading that and the section of the theft, I'm now doubtful that Agia did steal the Claw--I'm not sure what she was groping for in the cell, but I think there's a strong …
16 Oct 1998, 13:45
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Well, there may be some question as to which Severian Wolfe was thinking of. The heretic sect Severians (who are indeed in the online Catholic Encyclopedia at www.knight.org/adven…
16 Oct 1998, 12:44
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I still find the "Purgatorio" hypothesis to fit best with my interpretation of "Peace". This IS Weer's life as it was lived (or, perhaps, as he tells it to himself, which may be s…
25 Aug 1998, 17:33
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True. But I think the problems with URTH and NEW SUN and LONG SUN are (so to speak) minor--in general, I suspect we all have the same idea as to what's going on (LONG SUN being so…
23 Jul 1998, 15:28
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There has been a great deal of time and energy invested in attempting to unravel certain mysteries of 5HC, including the Marsch/V. R. T. question (who killed who? when? why? wha…
22 Jul 1998, 10:51
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It seems to be that space ships in Wolfe stories are very seldom simply neutral tools, carrying people around space. They're more like the little girl with the curl--"when they ar…
22 Jul 1998, 10:11
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I've often wondered if the name "Eleanor Bold" in PEACE is simply a coincidence, or is intended to mean something. I've seen Wolfe refer to Trollope before, particularly in an ess…
19 Jul 1998, 21:57
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Has there been any discussion on the list (sorry, I'm new and haven't had time to exhaustively browse the archives) of similarities between Severian and Claudius, both the historic…
16 Jul 1998, 16:04
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