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A favor, please? Or at least a suggestion. It's awfully annoying scrolling through all that SPOILER SPACE stuff, plus it takes up space in the archives, which can be hard to load a…
25 Jul 2000, 21:20
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Said Wombat, entirely correctly: Indeed. And there's the extraordinary physical prowess, the ability with a sword. The DNA in the physical body took care of that. But, too, Horn …
24 Jul 2000, 20:16
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I think he does and he doesn't. Horn practically worshipped Silk as a boy, wrote a book about him, has invested much of his life in perpetuating his myth and doesn't feel up to "wa…
24 Jul 2000, 10:29
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Adatta: adapting, adjusting Affito: permitting Atteno: (prob. a typo for attento, careful, attentive) Blanko: (either a typo for blanco, white, or another language, non-romance)…
23 Jul 2000, 14:26
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From Chris Culver: I translated most of the characters' names for mantis. Would the list like this to be posted? (It saves time with a dictionary, and is, in a few cases, amusing.…
22 Jul 2000, 12:59
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What a curious combination! One so hopeful, really, the other so weary. I always liked the "familiar compound ghost" though--I guess that part is played by Fred Savage. -alga…
08 Jul 2000, 08:58
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From David Duffy: Indeed. But they're amateurs compared to the ES crowd! -alga…
04 Jul 2000, 06:48
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Yes, it does. Thank you. -alga…
01 Jul 2000, 10:25
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Oh, thanks to David Duffy for the Rush=papyrus, very neat. And to mantis for invoking Silk as a kind of JC hero, which maybe I had in the back of my mind but had not yet really con…
30 Jun 2000, 08:12
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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at sirius.com> OK, semi back-off: That Agreed. This book does not fit any sort of later JC pattern. Reynard My point was only that Loren may h…
29 Jun 2000, 23:49
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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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I think there are six of us. That really isn't enough. Have others put in advance orders? What is the critical mass when we can start talking? -alga *This is WHORL, for discussi…
11 Jun 2000, 09:33
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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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I can see why Lewis never published "Prelude to Space." It's awful, just awful! The fragment of the second one is much better and the title is funny: "An Expostulation Against Too …
28 May 2000, 17:03
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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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Adam, A good argument, but it doesn't take into account that it is Vodalus who is the Pelagian, not Sev, who doesn't even understand the pass-phrase. Sev never seems to be interes…
22 May 2000, 20:57
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I'm hoping this is the beginning of an interesting discussion, not making positional points of my own. Alex, The idea that Communism I find it difficult to understand how such a…
19 May 2000, 20:04
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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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From the Kind and Helpful Ratso (what a paradox!)! For heavens's sake! Chaucer wrote "The Parliament of Foules" (Fowls) which I read in somewhat cribbed Middle English back when I…
03 May 2000, 23:07
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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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Like Grandfather Trout, I must rise to the fly. The Rat wrote (and I have snipped a good deal; I was going to snip all and start from scratch, but I can't): None of JC's works is…
26 Apr 2000, 21:20
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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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Rostrum rote: The scholarship is not that "contemporary" regarding Revelation. It was suspect from the gitgo, with several more sober bishops strongly objecting to it when the 4th…
18 Apr 2000, 23:56
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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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Ratty remarked: Not so closely as all that. Twenty-two years, IIRC, intervene. We have to assume, from the logic of fiction, that Silk has been alive and active, either on the Who…
09 Apr 2000, 21:11
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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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Rostrum said: Boys, boys, I'm not going to do your homework for you! Honestly, it's not that hard to figure out, thinking from back to front. And figuring it out makes the series…
03 Apr 2000, 21:31
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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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You're certainly entitled to think this way--and it's nice for LS to have a defender! What absolutely floors me, though, is that you were able to come in on the middle of the serie…
03 Apr 2000, 20:48
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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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