Posted from 6 addresses as thalassocrat, Andrew Bollen, Mr Thalassocrat, Ed EDson
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Marc says: Maybe they're just baboons? - "papio cynocephalus ursinus". (Cynocephalus = dog-headed, of course.) On the other hand, I did wonder whether the one in Shadow might hav…
01 Aug 2003, 08:48
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alga wrote amidst lots of interesting stuff: I thought of this book while I was reading the LB discussion here - specifically the New York stuff. I liked it when I was a youngster…
29 Jul 2003, 13:22
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mantis offered: Pedophilia? One slim pornographic work by Delany which was chock full of it; can't remember the name.…
28 Jul 2003, 23:09
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Yep, I'd be in it. Problem is, I'm in Australia. Maybe some kind of on-line thing as well? Wouldn't have to be very interactive or hi-tech to be useful. I'd also be willing to put …
26 Jul 2003, 13:26
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I took a friend of mine to lunch yesterday to celebrate her first book being accepted for publication by Random. She found the workshop thing very valuable. Before the workshop, sh…
26 Jul 2003, 12:26
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Poor GW. That must have been distressing.…
26 Jul 2003, 01:34
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Nutria says: As an ex-computer geek, I think of it like debugging - there's always some left, no matter how carefully you check. I sort of appreciate the serialization point, but …
13 Jul 2003, 23:18
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Josh says: FWIW, I agree with Josh. Roy's list of errors are easily explained as Wolfe nodding, IMO. Go through any series of large books by anybody, and you'll probably find the …
13 Jul 2003, 07:31
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Seth writes: Unless I've missed it, I don't think Sev makes this claim. It's Merryn who says: "He's my brother ... We're brothers & sisters, we witches & torturers" (Ch 13). I don…
11 Jul 2003, 05:10
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Marc writes: The actual comment from the Q&A: 14. Is there a member (current, former, future) of the Order of Seekers for Truth and Penitence on the Whorl? -- I'm going to interp…
10 Jul 2003, 06:43
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From mantis: Maybe this ties in tangentially with something that bugged me about the end of RTTW, the meetings between Silkhorn and young Sev. On the surface, these meetings are q…
10 Jul 2003, 02:24
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Christopher says: Me too! I don't think relics of prototype Sev's or their worlds exist in our Sev's world. At least, I don't see much reason to suppose they do. Sev encountering…
08 Jul 2003, 12:57
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Crush helps out: But to the point, there is one small issue that Andrew brings up that I think I understand. Latro kept his bargan with Artemis -- he raced. Hegisistratus' job …
25 Jun 2003, 10:20
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Crush: I think he may have learned Greek in Egypt, on campaign, from the Greek contingent in the Persian army. Her 3.1: ""... Cambyses the son of Cyrus led an army consisting of c…
19 Jun 2003, 06:06
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Crush writes: [Some good stuff] .. FWIW, I've been quickly brushing up on Roman "history" from the period, such as it is. The main themes are struggles between the plebs and patri…
19 Jun 2003, 02:45
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Matthew says: Anyway, the relevant passage is Ch 37 of Mist for Thermopylae: Latro addresses "the hundred" (I guess he is acting as centurion, if that term existed then): "While …
18 Jun 2003, 08:27
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Crush writes: I don't think Finley's argument against widespread trade, rather it's against widespread *economically important* trade of anything except rarities. In the chapter I…
16 Jun 2003, 07:54
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I guess I'm influenced by Finley, esp. passages like Chap 5 of "The Ancient Economy". His position, of course, is that large-scale trade in the ancient world was very rare. He can …
16 Jun 2003, 03:23
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Doesn't this get kind of explained in Latro's vision at Thermopylae? I don't have time to search out the quote, but as I recall, we learn from this that Latro is captain of a group…
16 Jun 2003, 00:08
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Crush bravely ventures into theology; I though clueless must follow .. I guess that's kind of what I was thinking, or at least one of the things I was thinking. Doesn't Jesus say…
14 Mar 2003, 17:27
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Well, it happens very late in the story, really. By then, he's been confirmed as the New Sun, and almost completed his brief "ministry" on Typhon-era Urth. If lethal self-defence…
13 Mar 2003, 08:29
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Matt says: I think you're off base here. Wolfe is presenting Severian as a human being who is in the process of becoming more Christ-like (i.e. as a Christian). Severian's arres…
13 Mar 2003, 07:10
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Roy says: You Sev's lack of meekness is almost a critique of Christ by Wolfe. If I were a Christian, there's one scene I'd find quite disturbing - his arrest in UOTNS. He fights …
13 Mar 2003, 04:47
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Roy, seraphic & IMO irrefutable, writes: The only reason I have seen for thinking that Silk might be a clone is the vessel-of-Pas theory. But why should Pas want such a vessel? It…
11 Mar 2003, 12:36
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Blah! You're right; I was muddled. Leucothea the sea-nymph resuced Odysseus, so I guess it's still an appropriate name for the lover of Cap'n Billy.…
09 Feb 2003, 04:18
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I forgot to make the obvious point that a Siren's name is appropriate for the lover of Billy the sea captain. FWIW, "Lara. A Naiad daughter of the River God Almo. Lara could not …
09 Feb 2003, 01:42
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Mimosa wrote: The earth was manipulated and discarded for the benefit of the technology rather than gardened in a sustainable way for the benefit of all. -----------------------…
08 Feb 2003, 05:13
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"Leucothea" was also the name of one of the Sirens. I've always thought that it would have been a good name for Seawrack.…
08 Feb 2003, 00:43
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Shell wrote: Although of course there's always the temptation to try to place any Wolfe work in an Urth context (and I also wondered if this was Urth, although I thought that if t…
07 Feb 2003, 16:41
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Nutria writes: [snippety] Thanks, Nutria - I now undertand Jonah's rather odd testiness over God sparing the Ninevites. I think the whole of Green, and Blue also, benefit from c…
28 Jan 2003, 01:38
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Blattid writes: I think "more" -- in that he's not asking to have Seawrack back on the terms Horn-in-Horn's-body had her before; he is (I think) asking the Mother for her freedom.…
28 Jan 2003, 00:32
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One more .... A possible answer to part of my question: "Why doesn't SilkHorn meet with Mucor at the end of RTTW? What happens to her? Obviously, he has had communication with Muc…
26 Jan 2003, 04:18
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Sorry, forgot one question. Marble prophesies for Horn regarding the community (at the beginning of OBW): "The city searches the sky for a sign, but no sign shall it have but the s…
26 Jan 2003, 02:41
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Can we include Virginia Wolfe? ----- Original Message ----- Not to mention _Time and the River_, _A Man in Full_, and _You Can't Go Home Again_. But while we're at it let's no…
24 Jan 2003, 17:05
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Need this be very different than Mucor's possessions, Mora/Fava's? Perhaps the agency is actually Mucor (although I don't know of any instance where we are told she cause a "3rd pa…
23 Jan 2003, 23:46
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Absolutely! I *like* Horn-into-Babbie, but I think Babbie-into-Horn fits better. But you could say the same thing for Mucor's possessions, Mora/Fava's possessions ... I feel comp…
23 Jan 2003, 23:38
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But SilkHorn saying goodbye to Nettle etc under the tree happens *after* the calling episode. A problem with this remains: why can Scylla-spirit-in-Oreb articulate words, where Ho…
23 Jan 2003, 14:50
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Just a couple of other thoughts on this. The second to last paragraph of OBW has Silk/Horn quoting his little song about fair young girls living to deceive one, followed immediat…
23 Jan 2003, 07:05
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Not so; Dionysius also died. Frequently. ------------- "Died" as in died, and not reborn.…
23 Jan 2003, 00:40
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Pan was also the only god to have actually died, according to somebody-or-other.…
22 Jan 2003, 22:48
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Tks - I'll check it out if I can find a copy. As an aside: I think the hacks who put together the Chras writings would have had an abundance of material to work with. There's a sn…
08 Jan 2003, 14:30
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Crush the sleuth writes: A quick scan of the introduction to "The Greek Myths" did not find this one. Nor did I find it in Graves' introduction to Bullfinch's "The Fabled Age." Th…
08 Jan 2003, 11:20
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That's a bit harsh. Marc's paraphrase includes some paraphrased reported speech, so he puts it in quotes. It's not like he's faking up a reference or something. Maybe it'd be helpf…
06 Jan 2003, 16:21
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This reminds me of something I posted a while ago here on Roman/Byzantine circus factions. In the hippodrome, there were four team colors: blue, green, white and red. The Blues and…
06 Jan 2003, 15:53
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My theory is that they were a gift from the Mother, along with some killer aftershave, and a supersized can of viagra.…
02 Jan 2003, 16:20
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No, no - don't thank me; thank Google! :)…
30 Dec 2002, 23:05
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Alga wrote some nice, interesting things - thanks Alga! Just a quick comment on this: Oh, absolutely. I mean, if Long Sun/Short Sun isn't designed as a "precursor" to BOTNS in the…
20 Dec 2002, 16:18
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Crush - I just came across your interesting site, and had a couple of questions. In the intro, you say: "[Wolfe has] recreated Gwydion's riddle as exegeted by Robert Graves in his …
19 Dec 2002, 05:01
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No doubt you're right. I googled the text from this site: http://www.unc.edu/~reddeer/white_goddess/00_white.goddess.robert.graves.htm l#hanes, which cites it as an RG translation,…
18 Dec 2002, 17:42
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I stopped being a logician soon after I finished my PhD, stuck in a different but perhaps equally biting dilemma: Even if I did manage to prove FLT, would it actually make me care…
18 Dec 2002, 12:44
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