Posted from 8 addresses as Alice Turner, Alice K. Turner, akt, aturner3
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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As we New Yorkers (even gentiles) say; Oy vay!!! On the other hand.... -alga…
14 Dec 2002, 03:43
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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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Don: Thanks very much for those sites. I couldn't reach the first one, but found the second fascinating (Noah and Hindu mythology) and also remarkably well written (considering th…
25 Nov 2002, 01:40
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From Crowley. And please honor his "don't tell," those of you connected with the press etc.: My news is that the fourht volume of Aegypt will be done by year's end. It has a titl…
18 Nov 2002, 02:15
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It is indeed Edgar in disguise. Plays so different as to seem by different authors. -alga…
15 Nov 2002, 02:24
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Jerry F. responded to Dan'l and Nutria's debate: (This is so parenthetical that I'm putting it in parens, but two more that many know something about (there are hundreds of small …
05 Nov 2002, 01:50
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She does. With some surprise that she never noticed it before. BTW, the Gnostic primer, the easiest and most available text, spelling out all the surviving myths, remains THE GNOS…
02 Nov 2002, 01:34
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Not answering anyone completely because it's just too hard to do multiple answers on the Digest now (hi, Ranjit!) but Wombat asked why Middle Eastern mythology rather than Hellenic…
24 Oct 2002, 00:25
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Roy asks: Oh, nothing really: For I will consider my cat Jeoffry For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him... Christopher Smart -alga…
17 Oct 2002, 01:20
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Mused mantis: [snip] But aren't you forgetting that the TW desired love too, as well as polish--his first desire was a heart, to love but also to be loved. And he became Emperor …
16 Oct 2002, 01:55
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Geller" <dclxvi at dclxvi.best.vwh.net> quoting Rostrum:: No, the graphics are fun there, but the information is flip and sophomoric; for in…
12 Oct 2002, 01:24
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From Matthew: And a persistant one: Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond, [snip] A perfectly lovely old lay. I was lucky enough to hear this sung as a round once by the Pr…
11 Oct 2002, 02:42
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Great post, Roy. I will chew it over. -alga…
06 Oct 2002, 00:58
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Crush cried: I don't think it's tight. But consider an author's thinking: A Tin Soldier (and I think he *was* thinking of Andersen's tin soldier too, thank you, mantis). What abou…
27 Sep 2002, 02:20
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Maybe a little background on the Tin Woodman, for those who are familiar mainly with the movie or the first book only. We know that Wolfe knows the Baum books well, through "Eyefla…
26 Sep 2002, 02:36
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From: "Jerry Friedman" reponding to Blatttid: I agree. It is certainly an original situation, and one that could only occur in SF. Both were unaware of it. Wolfe surely meant it t…
17 Sep 2002, 03:35
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Rostrum rote: Hmm. Considering when he wrote (he died in 1966), I've always thought that Smith had a far better grasp of computers than any of his contemporaries. Rod McBan's Nors…
11 Sep 2002, 01:47
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Whoops, I meant that Ossipago was the hierodulean chem! -alga…
07 Sep 2002, 01:26
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In this discussion, which is pretty interesting (I admit to having cruised past most everything here lately, but this arrested me), I am surprised that no one has yet brought up Si…
07 Sep 2002, 01:20
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