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Hastily after a looong weekend: Said Adam: I doubt it. It's a nickname for a boy who seems to be "streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence," and whom only cheerful …
28 Jun 2000, 13:48
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From Alex: Once we meet Crane's "gang," which isn't until a lot later, I think we can have no doubt as to who effected the graffiti campaign. Certainly it's not "spontaneous," in …
21 Jun 2000, 13:05
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Yes, the initial meeting is accidental. But you have to assume that Trivigaunte was looking for a candidate to set up as a puppet in a coup d'etat in Viron, and just about as soon …
20 Jun 2000, 11:31
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No, Alex. And since I think of you and Adam as the two bright young things of the list, and since you've both got a month or so to wait until you get your grubby little paws on IGJ…
16 Jun 2000, 20:26
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Yes, this has been around for quite a while, though, as with most rumors, it seems to have no definite source. My impression is that Horn is somehow going to incorporate aspects of…
07 Jun 2000, 09:43
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Had a short, unprepared interview with JC. Have not yet played the tape back, but at one point I asked questions from the group and scribbled notes, so this is from my notes. Willi…
03 Jun 2000, 11:23
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Vizcacha said: And Rostrum replied: I would appreciate more on this. I've read these books (not for years, true) without conciously picking up these points. And does Wolfe really…
27 May 2000, 02:08
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To retreat from Pelagianism for a moment (Adam, I'll come back), John Crowley says he'll be in NYC (where I live) next week and may have some free time on Wednesday, so I might sta…
24 May 2000, 22:10
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We've never discussed this, have we? In CLAW, just before they dine on baked Thecla,Vodalus gives a flint-like object to Sev to give to his "agent" at the House Absolute (the auta…
19 May 2000, 10:20
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I've gone back to review my posts in the archive, now that Ranjit has made this easier, and I'm mortified at my bizarre lack of word-wrap for several months. I've no idea what I di…
15 May 2000, 21:23
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Hey, mantis, mind telling us something about this? With some quotes, maybe? -alga…
10 May 2000, 01:07
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You're completely right: "Tullyus of the Drem of Scipioun." Depends Yes, I did, sorry to be foggy. But you are once again right: post-Dante it beome a very popular literary trope…
09 May 2000, 00:19
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Just a bit more on the TD Tarot, this also from my essay: And what of the seven greater trumps? They match the seven moons or planets of this world. They also—this is clever—repre…
07 May 2000, 23:26
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It's late (oh, it's always late) and I don't want to get into the business of continual quoting, at least for the moment. But as to the fey question--aka "going inward"--don't you …
07 May 2000, 23:03
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Fellow members of the Urth list: Go see it. -alga…
07 May 2000, 00:11
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They I dug out Chaucer. "The Parliament of Fowls" is a charming Valentine's Day poem. The poet has been reading Scipio Africanus who tells how in a dream he was shown the mysterie…
06 May 2000, 16:37
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Adam asked It was part of my essay on "The Deep." I put it in at the last moment, as I had just found a good book on the Tarot, and I notice it's not in the version I sent to two …
06 May 2000, 15:56
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Those of us who feel we've lost LS momentum might want to check out this web-essay to pick it up again (full disclosure, mantis gave it to me): http://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/…
04 May 2000, 22:07
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Michael Swanwick called it (or something like it) "hard fantasy" in a rather nice essay that I read because it got reprinted in an (otherwise fictional, or at least fiction) "Best …
02 May 2000, 09:19
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I thought I had fixed the word wrap before posting my little article, but no. The Digest takes *forever* to download now, which is why I didn't realize the problem. Ranjit---pleas…
30 Apr 2000, 14:47
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From Ratty: Well, gosh, I don't think it's a "guess," exactly, any more than S. Holmes "guessed" at his conclusions. Just look at the evidence! JC doesn't flat out say, "Hey, Vi w…
29 Apr 2000, 23:53
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This is the piece I wrote for NYRSF. It's not long for a piece, but it's long for a post. Sorry, but it contains enough that seems to be relevant to the questions coming up that it…
29 Apr 2000, 22:37
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Nick, thank you for enlightening me re Severiano! Now on to Severianus and Severus. Plus another puzzle (to me). I am reading a book called -A Chronicle of the Last Pagans- (Pierre…
26 Apr 2000, 19:54
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Here's a mystery for the list, at least it's a mystery to me. The learned critic, Frank Kermode, contributed an essay to the NY Times Book Review on the subject of several books ab…
25 Apr 2000, 10:57
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Just for the hellofit, I looked up "Tackman" in the OED. The definition: One who looks after horses or cattle which are grazed on tack. I found this very strange. My mother was a …
20 Apr 2000, 16:41
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Nacre replies to Nick: Horn at one point (sorry, I don't have time to look for it) speculates that the imagery of demons was based on inhumi. Which is not so different from Nacre'…
15 Apr 2000, 13:26
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Adam asked: .> Is there textual evidence from TBOTLS that Silk may be in a two-headed Near the end of the last book Kypris appears in a Window and says seductively, "Silk, wouldn…
08 Apr 2000, 13:10
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Well, to a degree Horn is being disingenuous. He knows, from Oreb certainly (and we readers know that Oreb always speaks truth), that it is Silk's body. But he also knows that he i…
03 Apr 2000, 21:05
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Adam, the points you raise are serious ones. My opinion, fwiw, is that he is a flawed but fundamentally decent man (and I too was horrified by the rape, as you can see in the archi…
03 Apr 2000, 20:43
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(Old) newt spake: His principal critic is Nettle; he has told us this. But just about everyone in the original Vironese settlement on Blue must have clamored to put in a word once…
01 Apr 2000, 16:17
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Thomas, All of Calvino's work has been available in English for decades, plenty of time for Wolfe to see it. His books were translated here almost at once, and have remained in pr…
24 Feb 2000, 19:03
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Ooops! Thomas is German, not Danish. Sorry! -alga…
23 Feb 2000, 21:39
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Well, if you kept on reading, you'll have found that we agreed that there is no evidence of this, that the above memory was faulty. Of course, there is no firm evidence that it's n…
23 Feb 2000, 21:17
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I thought I'd pass on a nice part-paragraph from The New York Review of Books that seems appropriate to this new series. It is in a review of Italo Calvino's "Why Read the Classics…
18 Feb 2000, 20:06
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SBear whuffled: and I thought: Yes, and it's important to remember, too, that the Horn Krait is mimicking is the original Horn, not the Horn who seems transformed later, not just…
18 Feb 2000, 19:37
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The Birthday Bear weighed in with some good thoughts: Agreed here, and it seems to me that Krait makes that point. It's pretty hard to get around this. I hate the idea of Pike's …
11 Feb 2000, 15:20
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I like them too. But I like novels set in the classical period (Renault, Graves, Mitchison, even that trashy but fun detective series set in ancient Rome). I think he's done it qu…
11 Feb 2000, 14:46
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Enough about me, mantis. But you're right about Fellini: Both "Roma" and "Fred and Ginger" feature massive traffic jams. But I still remember Godard's "Weekend" as the jam champ. …
10 Feb 2000, 11:20
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Correct. And you can toss in THE DEVIL IN A FOREST. No, I quite liked that. But it is a fable, not a realistic contemporary story. I get confused about those stories with the sim…
09 Feb 2000, 10:22
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Wm Ansley noted that: Does anyone else remember the Jean-Luc Godard movie "Weekend," about a massive traffic jam that stopped cars leaving Paris? It was visually arresting and qui…
08 Feb 2000, 10:44
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When I referred to Tiptree and Russ, I was thinking of this story, but even more centrally of Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" and Russ's "When It Changed." -alga…
03 Feb 2000, 09:43
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This is a copy of two posts I sent, yesterday and this morning, that apparently didn't get through. If there is duplication, apologies, but I have a mysterious history of error wit…
01 Feb 2000, 18:56
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Welcome, Sheila, Well, this remark may have referred to the apparition of Patera Pike (LS1), which has caused a great deal of fingerwork on many keyboards for these archives. (I s…
29 Jan 2000, 14:44
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Um, I really don't want to read FLF again, but in referring to TBOTNS, there are several kinds of time paradoxes. There's Sev-Apu-Punchau, and then again there's Gunnie-Burgundofar…
26 Jan 2000, 21:05
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From my classicist friend: ---- Good heavens, that's a lot of Latin for one short story. What's the story? Alis volat propriis. He flies on his own wings. Ab imo pectore. From de…
26 Jan 2000, 08:17
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Wm. posted: Why don't I take care of this? One of my best friends is a classicist, and can translate them in a jiffy. I'll e-mail her tomnorrow (too tired to look up the phrases t…
25 Jan 2000, 22:04
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Mantis and Alex, please help out a confused citizen. (Yes, there are spoilers, but I'm not going to leave any space.) mantis: How do we know that, and why would he do such a thin…
24 Jan 2000, 17:38
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Allan Lloyd theorized (apparently on Oct. 26, 1999): This is certainly possible. Though I don't know about the returning of blood. Jahlee is a notably sarcastic creature (as is Kr…
22 Jan 2000, 10:30
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Young newt squeaked (actually, I'm not sure what newts do, and anyway, I'm ignoring his a)): This is an interesting question. I don't think there's any doubt at all that Silk is a…
20 Jan 2000, 19:58
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Wm. Ansley posited: Nicely reasoned, Wm. (and thanks for reprising the Lebling list), but I don't buy it for a moment. (And I don't think you do either.) Look, you guys, you're al…
20 Jan 2000, 09:32
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