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Thomas questioned: Calvino's books have been available in English for decades. The one I reviewed (-Elephant Bangs Train-) came out in 1975 or so. Calvino is considered a major au…
25 Feb 2000, 11:26
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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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I agree with our new Danish member (welcome, Thomas, and please turn off that Rich Text feature for this list) that the Calvino influence, if any, is not so evident. Except for my …
23 Feb 2000, 21:36
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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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I find myself totally in agreement with the Rat, the new Reformed Rat, His Nutriciousness, who went back to contradict himself on "The Ziggurat." (Quote not included as it is quite…
29 Jan 2000, 10:45
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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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If that is the secret, I will eat my rat...er...hat. -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
16 Jan 2000, 10:49
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From the NY Times, 1/16/00, Gerald Jonas column: Gene Wolfe's reputation as one of modern science fictions most impotant writers rests largely on his series of novels about re…
15 Jan 2000, 10:51
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Plasma is absolutely right about the inhumi being reptilian and being able to hibernate or shut down. But what is new about that---we've pretty much known that all along, almost si…
11 Jan 2000, 19:30
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I had a short, memorable (except to me, whose memory is deplorable), email discussion on C.S. Lewis's -Till We have Faces- with somebody here. You forwarded a terrific Lewis letter…
07 Jan 2000, 00:17
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eyes Yves, it's awfully confusing, and deliberately so, but consistent with Wolfe's deliberate confusions in much of his writing. Nevertheless, that's a good catch of yours, and i…
22 Dec 1999, 19:21
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STRANGE TRAVELERS Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, this collection of Wolfe's stories published in the 1990s contains death by overdose, suicide, Armageddon, cruelty…
20 Dec 1999, 20:31
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Huh? No, I can't quite buy the DEEP ref. Wolfe's tone here is facetious; Crowley is not facetious, though he does have a kind of learning-obsessed sophomoric irony--and I hope not …
15 Dec 1999, 04:26
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I do NOT want to be the FAQ keeper. I am happy to be a lieutenant, as I have been with mantis on a number of projects, but I do not want to be the general!!!! But I do think that t…
09 Dec 1999, 22:15
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Well, I am blown away by mantis's quite amazing precis of TBOTNS for GURPS, as I expect the rest of you are. I've only read it once through, and I know there are a few points where…
08 Dec 1999, 21:16
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At Paul Duggan's site, I just read a 1991 essay by Stephen Palmer which posits a thought I'd never seen before (pasted); Severian even though his mask was on then tried to cover h…
02 Dec 1999, 09:00
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The Rodent opined: I think you are correct, but that this is not the secret. I also think that "hanging around and being near" doesn't have much, if anything to do with it; it's t…
25 Nov 1999, 10:31
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Rostrum said, a while back: Which intrigued me enough to go back to TWHF to see if I could give it a Christian reading. And I couldn't; in fact, I kept forgetting that I was tryin…
21 Nov 1999, 18:39
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Hi John Roberson, and welcome, Thanks for pitching right in. My take on your two points: I. I don't detect a hint of Pas (as I see Pas, or as we all saw him as Typhon) in the "vo…
16 Nov 1999, 20:09
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One thing that I don't think anyone has yet mentioned: The echo of NS5 in Horn's being asked by the Vanished People to speak for his race (humanity) just as Sev had to represent th…
16 Nov 1999, 10:19
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[snip] I'm in this camp. To start with, Seawrack was a gift from a mysterious entity, and surely we've learned to beware of such gifts. Krait's suspicion is a real clue too--in hi…
16 Nov 1999, 10:10
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I am really sorry my paste from the OED on cacogen and carnifex came through so badly. There is a reason, but I won't bore you. I can repost legibly, if it's totally unreadable and…
12 Nov 1999, 22:44
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Oops, after a much too jolly dinner, I suffered a mental lapse, momentarily confusing the most ch-chi rodent with the largest one. They do both live in South America, where so many…
12 Nov 1999, 22:36
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Rat rote: A base canard, O Water-Hog! (A) we do not know what Wolfe's religious beliefs actually are, as he is coy on the subject. (B) I *love* religions. Especially dead ones. -…
12 Nov 1999, 22:22
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From: Charles Dye Michael Andre-Driussi writes: :Whoops. I completely misunderstood your comment, that you felt she had :*won* the contest by telling the best story. Quit confus…
12 Nov 1999, 08:24
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May I offer an entirely non-PC thoroughly female take? (We're not supposed to take gender-based positions.) Mantis is right. Foila is taken with Sev. Foila is flirting with Sev. Fo…
11 Nov 1999, 22:03
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Foila is my favorite female Urth character. (Though I raise a glass to Juturna.) -alga…
09 Nov 1999, 21:59
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Aha--here it is; at the back of my mind I knew I had a second point of contention with Timothy Reilly (what a lot of Irishmen we have here....): I felt the same way you did at fir…
08 Nov 1999, 19:54
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Nick Gevers said: Yes, Nick, but you missed my point, and that of others. It is when Clute dumbs down his prose that he is readable and useful. What we are all objecting to is the…
07 Nov 1999, 09:55
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I agree here. I have never understood the hostility toward this book. It seems radiant to me, a truly beautiful, immortal book and entirely necessary to the series. Tzad is wonderf…
06 Nov 1999, 22:21
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He does make a number of petty mistakes, but I tend to be tolerant of those (knowing how many of these are routinely caught by fact-checkers and copy-editors in any professional ve…
03 Nov 1999, 23:59
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I agree with pretty much everything in the last digest, uncluding the general awfulness of the covers, but I thought I might doublecheck on Dan's question. And lookee what I found:…
02 Nov 1999, 19:46
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Mantis remarked, in discussion of fantasy v. SF: Well, no. Actually I agree---how not. The Gothic elements refer directly back to alchemy, most specifically in Baldanders's castle…
02 Nov 1999, 10:04
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