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Not at all. It's only a way of looking at things, and it only works if you think that Wolfe drops deliberate, somewhat cryptic clues as to geography. It's part of a scheme that I h…
24 Mar 1997, 00:17
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Kudos to Wesley Parsons! Oosik and Mattak were real head-scratchers, and a wonderful find. Now if someone could just pin down the Triv language so we could start in on them. No Ara…
21 Mar 1997, 21:34
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Love that tick-talk. Howard Chace is a good find. -alga- Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com…
20 Mar 1997, 17:46
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. xury: My new OED that I am so proud of let me down, giving only the fabric definition (though it did please me by going back for roots past the French caterpillar to "canicula…
19 Mar 1997, 07:50
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Well, I've developed a kind of geography of Urth, or at least of Severian's major journey, an abbreviated version of which is in mantis's second addendum to Lexicon Urthus (if you …
18 Mar 1997, 09:06
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Oh, yes, though it's surely only a local joke, I hope that no one is going to pursue the idea of Orchid's manse as part of Chicago geography. For one thing, the Playboy Mansion as …
16 Mar 1997, 20:58
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Two words for you, mort: "plate tectonics" <g>. Remember Gondwanaland (not literally, of course)? Continents migrate. Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com…
16 Mar 1997, 20:36
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ranjit: I am somewhat in favor of just one list, but I can understand your reasons for a distinct Whorl list for archival purposes. How about two, for the Whorl and one for all els…
15 Mar 1997, 11:56
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Quill just prodded me into a new thought: Remember the little statues of Sphigx for sale in the Viron marketplace, by which Crane sends his spy messages to Trivigaunte? Well, thos…
07 Mar 1997, 11:06
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Quill: You've demonstrated a fine ability to fling mantis into orbit in his antic mantic mode! I like that Mint theory. Wolfe is very coy about Mint--we know nothing at all about…
07 Mar 1997, 10:49
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Tercel was looking up Flier terms. I offer this for "canna" as the only Gaelic definition in the OED. "Glacaiocht" isn't there. cannach ("kan@x). Sc. Also canna. [a. Gaelic cánac…
04 Mar 1997, 08:29
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Well, maybe it's gauche to say so, now that we've learned what a mensch vizcacha is in his other life, but does anyone here doubt that Whorl would be a marvelous game? A hollow a…
27 Feb 1997, 21:25
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Kieran, Have you read the Archive? If you have one of the newer browsers you can get right to it by pressing the 'moonmilk.volcano.org' URL at the bottom of this message series. I…
27 Feb 1997, 08:43
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vizcacha- Munch, munch...that's crow I'm eating, not night-chough. But I have to retort, weakly. It's possible, from the way this is phrased, that this boasting took place 25 (sa…
26 Feb 1997, 05:17
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Heh, heh. I hate There Are Doors too, Patrick. Kipling's Jungle Book is one of the right-out-front sources for the Brown Book in NS, but I can't see much of a connection to LS, an…
25 Feb 1997, 13:32
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Mantis, I don't think so. I had meant to point out that IV,379 (not 380) was clearly a typo, a proofer's error, and I think 313 (which I hadn't caught) is the same and that they …
23 Feb 1997, 06:29
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It is definitely puzzling. If the Fliers, who are the Crew, did it, how come they are so obedient to the re-activated Tartaros? Who did the technical work for the Lemuroid bodies--…
23 Feb 1997, 06:14
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Molybdenum (Moly) is the real name Marble had before she took orders. Magnesia (Maggie) was Hammersmith's sweetheart's name, and she pretends for a while to be that person though s…
19 Feb 1997, 18:21
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I have a lot of Harold Bloom books, and they're in some disarray. As soon as I find the one with the Lindsay essay (well woth reading), I'll post. -alga- Questions or problems …
16 Feb 1997, 14:46
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Gosh, we're all getting so nostalgic and philosophical. I'll bite. I started with Oz myself at a young age, moved on to Kipling (another Wolfe fave). SF: C. Smith and Vance (Vance …
16 Feb 1997, 14:43
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Another thought on Tartaros. He appears to be in charge of Mainframe at the end of the series. If that is so, and if the monitor on the landing ship is connected to Mainframe, and …
13 Feb 1997, 18:02
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Chenille is 19. Hy is 23. Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com…
12 Feb 1997, 17:36
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Here are my answers to Dave's questions, last first. Tartaros picked Auk, I think, simply because he could, given his limitations. After he created the Pas puppet to speak for him,…
11 Feb 1997, 15:08
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Checked those refs re Mucor's parentage, mantis, and you are wrong, wrong, wrong. Silk is speaking metaphorically in each case. In the first he has just met her and is thinking of …
07 Feb 1997, 11:50
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First, Dave, I'm so glad you concentrated on Mint---she was going to be next for me, but now I don't have to---and Pas. Especially glad to learn that no Echidna soils little Mint. …
06 Feb 1997, 14:06
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Having done the list of theophanies and possessions (that was me--algae--not mantis, though I think it would be nice if mantis emended the list with that fine timeline he's cooking…
04 Feb 1997, 17:49
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Someone asked a while back why, if "Pike's ghost" were Quetzal, he would fly in, fly out again, then come back to pose as Pike. Actually, the answer is simple. Like Kypris, he want…
03 Feb 1997, 18:46
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Whorl Theophanies and Possessions I thought a list of the above might be helpful. Note that only a virgin can successfully interpret a theophany (though a determined god can get …
03 Feb 1997, 12:25
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Hello there, Michael----um, mantis---how nice to be disagreeing with you in public instead of private. If you're going to take a Viron name, so will I. How's aloe? That should be h…
31 Jan 1997, 12:35
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I trust Oreb too. And we know Queztal can fly: (a) tree scene (b) very last paragraph of Exodus. As for dissolution, that seems to me to be an illusion not unlike that of stage mag…
30 Jan 1997, 11:35
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With regard to Quetzal and his possible appearance at "Pike" David Lebling writes: However, I don't think aquastors turn into small dark things that fly out windows, so to me it's…
27 Jan 1997, 18:19
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