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Oh--then we are actually in agreement here. I think there's a good chance that it was Weer (or Wolfe meant it to be Weer--the correspondence model of truth is tricky when dealing …
28 Aug 1998, 13:58
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Not to go for the overt psycho-analysis school (which would probably be an especially bad idea with Wolfe, but he has said that Weer is closer to him than most think), but wasn't h…
27 Aug 1998, 16:29
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On Aug 26, 12:12am, William H. Ansley wrote: I agree--I only meant that Bobby is the "best" case I see for someone killed by Weer (and a poor case, although it's easy to see how …
26 Aug 1998, 13:29
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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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I think Chesterton's influence is more philosophical than literary. Wolfe has stated many times his vast admiration for Chesterton and Kipling (as well as Mark's Engineering Handb…
05 Aug 1998, 10:40
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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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