Posted from 8 addresses as Alice Turner, Alice K. Turner, akt, aturner3
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Um, that was a joke? Referring to Spain in the quote? And to the Orwell reference? I know where Lepanto is/was. You forgot to point out that Chesterton was not technically a Vict…
11 Jan 2005, 21:00
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Andrew Bollen: To which vizcacha replied: Oh, I agree completely. This kind of writing is completely out of fashion now, but "Lepanto" is actually a fine example of robust Victo…
11 Jan 2005, 14:16
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So far as I know, Wolfe has said nothing about her. My assumption comes from her name (we know the names of the Norns--Skull, Urd and Verthandi), her description (hair and teeth)…
06 Jan 2005, 11:53
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Well, the carved stick is a spindle, or something like it. I don't understand why you'd want to insist on her being a Norn when Wolfe has clearly indicated that she isn't. Her na…
04 Jan 2005, 13:19
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Ormsby= Pendragon, bravo Dan'l. Would not have occurred to me. As to Parka, she is the "white spinner of destiny," and she operates on a level above the Overcym because they too …
03 Jan 2005, 13:28
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Well, that "any" certainly gave me a chuckle. You know who I miss from this group? Nutria, known to me as Ratty. He could be counted upon for the evangelical Protestant PoV, and …
13 Dec 2004, 15:27
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Ah, but I read The Scar first, then went back to PSS. Which makes me completely agree with Dan'l about grotesquerie and the "wow" factor being only good for one book. We simply s…
03 Dec 2004, 12:34
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Yes, The Scar is a lot better than PSS (though it completely falls apart at the end), and IC is hopeless (I think, though I've only ventured into it for three chapters). I plead …
02 Dec 2004, 19:30
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I've been off this list for quite a long time, just rejoined, and feel I should add some <g> support to Hmpf (though that is a distinctly non-vegetal name). Wow, pretty busy on t…
30 Nov 2004, 20:29
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Again, thanks all for being so amusing and/or obsesssive! There's a waggish term paper for someone in this somewhere I'm sure. I blush, Pippen (shouldn't that be Pippin--but no, ar…
23 Aug 2003, 08:21
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Highly amused by replies. Mantis, you are obsessive! Of course so is Nutricious. And how could I have forgotten, for even one moment, of Roast Thecla. -alga…
22 Aug 2003, 01:14
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I have just finished reading (in small doses) Dianna Wynne Jones's -Tough Guide to Fantasyland- which should probably be required for anyone who wishes to set a book there. A lot o…
21 Aug 2003, 04:30
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mantis said: Agreed, and I'm sure Nutria does too; it's a clear New Testament echo. And I don't think he had any interstellar reach whatsoever; there's no proof that hierodules we…
19 Aug 2003, 00:38
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Okely-dokely, ever so grateful, kind of you, Dan'l Daheny-Oakes. Can you please, notwithstanding extra-legality, overnight first-class some of them smokes? -alga ----- I woke up …
06 Aug 2003, 20:58
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For Dan'l, writing for Marc, A very nice summary of the pros and cons of first-person. For the record, women writers (and I use "writers" loosely, including students and wanna-bes…
02 Aug 2003, 11:56
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bee, Hmm. By this time I suppose I'm pretty conversant with Crowley but I don't know what you mean by this. LB does not seem to me to pick up on themes from his three earlier book…
01 Aug 2003, 07:07
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One more thing. Delaney is indeed covered in hair, or at least he was two weeks ago. Baldy seems to me a perfectly logical contraction of Baldanders--why should it refer to hair? A…
29 Jul 2003, 05:53
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It seems to me that there is enirely too much ad hominen squabbling going on here--if this list degenerates into Usenet, I, for one, will depart. Take it to e-mail if you want to i…
29 Jul 2003, 05:26
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Blattid, It is partly a sort of mood thing. a state of mind that people who read Victorian children's literature, or loved the fairy paintings of the period, when they were young …
27 Jul 2003, 22:51
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Whoops, I did get the ship Samru confused with the starship. Does anyone remember who the original Samru was?--the lovely lady who inspired Shah Jehan to build the Taj Mahal in her…
09 Jul 2003, 05:27
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The miracle of Apu-Punchau was an eclipse. Or a supposed eclipse; actually, as Wolfe makes (almost) clear in his afterword, it was the very large starship Sanru passing across the …
08 Jul 2003, 03:48
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----- Original Message ----- Both the tone and the stance throughout this short piece parallel "Seven American Nights." Frazier is perfectly capable of having read Wolfe. (For ma…
03 Jul 2003, 12:41
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"Ah, America! Every image of it from the films is true, I thought to myself as my oily-featured driver sped through amber lights and babbled maniacally into his radio. The familiar…
01 Jul 2003, 00:29
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This is from the FAQ of alt.mythology. I wrote it. Don't subscribe to alt.mythology; it has been hijacked by thugs. I could not be sorrier to say so; it was once an enchanting news…
27 Apr 2003, 13:47
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From Oren: Hi Oren, Nice to have someone who falls upon a list by accident feel so curious that he (a) signs up and (b) starts right in reading a new author--do you realize that y…
22 Apr 2003, 02:00
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From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com> quoting me: Have you considered why she's your ex-wife, hmmm? No, seriously, none of the Golden Agers could address sex; you could say that t…
21 Apr 2003, 02:50
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From Dan'l. quoting somebody: Wrong. No one ever, ever, including hack porn writers, EVER, EVER wrote worse sex than Heinlein. With possibly the momentary exception of a long-forg…
18 Apr 2003, 16:17
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I haven't read the Chiang collection, but everything I've run into individually of his has been first-rate and highly original. But some negatives: I did not like Mark Helprin's -W…
14 Apr 2003, 23:12
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oops. I posted from the wrong address. http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0003/0197.shtml Seas are cold tonight... Stretching over Sado island Silent clouds of stars. http://www…
12 Apr 2003, 21:46
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Six years--gosh, are we all six years older? Surely not! Post the list, Nigel, for the Web is six thousand times bigger than it was six years ago and I will do a search. (I've been…
11 Apr 2003, 01:07
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From: "Gareth Jelley" <gjelley at btopenworld.com> A fine Whorl surname, should you be inclined that way. Where is this story to be found? -alga --------- We like March, his shoes ar…
17 Mar 2003, 05:23
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I just did a google on this--quite fascinating! -a-…
02 Mar 2003, 03:26
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Back in the 60s, before the Stonewall Rebellion, before gay liberation of any note, the Mattachine Society on the East Coast (and for all I know on the West) was a coded name for a…
02 Mar 2003, 00:32
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Re Nick's announcement re the Crowley book: I'd like to wax sentimental for three seconds to say how grateful I am to this list and to Ranjit for keeping it going. (And I know I'm …
28 Feb 2003, 17:07
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Gosh, I think it would be difficult to find a book of any genre that portrays domestic love more eloquently than LITTLE, BIG. Sure Smoky strays with Sophie, but can anyone doubt h…
19 Feb 2003, 21:08
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Before I get slapped for it--I'm aware that Ollie was not a Watergater. Bad phrasing. It's part of the amalgam I meant to suggest--a certain thuggery in American politics, not some…
08 Feb 2003, 02:36
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Another useful way to look at it is as a take on the Nixon White House, set in a decade that is probably the defining era of serious feminism (history makes strange bedfellows). Th…
08 Feb 2003, 02:22
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Shell quoted a Rodentoid interview with GW: "...Laura is looking for lovers, but Green is looking for love and he has found it, or he thinks he has found it. And whether she loves…
17 Jan 2003, 02:01
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You may find this hard to believe, but I know a goddess who holds down a more-or-less full time job as a secretary for casual moguls, the private jet-set type. She is a sort of Ho…
14 Jan 2003, 08:51
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To paraphrase Paul Simon: Don't be coy, Roy. Enquiring minds want to know. -alga…
13 Jan 2003, 10:00
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I've forgotten who the Pullmanologists are among us. I've been rereading -The Subtle Knife-, I really can't tell you why, and I'd like to discuss Specters (American spelling) off t…
06 Jan 2003, 22:21
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Teflon challenged: Ordinarily I never get involved when the argument gets technical, but this one seems so obvious that I'll stick my neck out. With the coming of the New Sun came…
29 Dec 2002, 03:07
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This thing is rampant. I've received it three times today as an attachment from dnsanchez at msn.com (whose messages I have now blocked; you might consider doing that in advance). It'…
25 Dec 2002, 02:53
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Correct--the last sentence, that is. The meaning has changed. I invite you both to do a Google on "picaresque Tom Jones." Follow it up with "picaresque Don Quixote" and then with "…
23 Dec 2002, 05:57
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Rat rote: Oh Ratty, picaresque tales are very much with us today! Without even using my waning brain power, I'm thinking -Tom Jones-(and then the movie), Felix Krull-, -On the Roa…
21 Dec 2002, 02:00
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From Andrew Bollen--hi there: I am sort of a vanished person (lower case) on this list myself, but Andrew makes some great points and inspires me. Andrew, this is a fine thesis, t…
19 Dec 2002, 03:57
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As we New Yorkers (even gentiles) say; Oy vay!!! On the other hand.... -alga…
14 Dec 2002, 03:43
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Could we please have less **quoting** and far more **snipping** on the list! That last digest was sheer torture. And just think what it will do to the archive. Thanks in advance. …
13 Dec 2002, 01:21
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You can use any name you like, but if you're going to be posting a lot that unwieldy sig is going to cause some annoyance. -alga…
11 Dec 2002, 04:38
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From mantis: I'm an Oz "expert," and there is no connection whatever. I doubt that Lewis ever read Baum. But just for starters, Dorothy Betsey and Trot, three little American girl…
01 Dec 2002, 03:27
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