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Jeffrey's excellent "Valeria = Urth" post somehow made clear to me the symbolic aspect of Sev's destruction of Typhon by killing Piaton. Piaton surely represents the old Urth, inno…
26 Sep 2004, 19:08
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Very tangentially ... One of the things which makes me a gushing GW fan-boy is the realistic depth to his worlds, despite all the fantasy elements. A small example: I see a natural…
29 Jul 2003, 04:55
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Actually, Mr Google tells me it was "Tides of Lust", aka "Equinox". The scenario was something like: guy owns a tramp-yacht or fishing boat or something; he owns two 12 year old ki…
29 Jul 2003, 00:06
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Little things: 1. Malrubius sans Triskele appears to Sev once only, I think? The night of his elevation to journeyman, when he's sleeping off his over-indulgence. Malrubius pops h…
19 Jul 2003, 07:51
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Quite a lot more time than a week must separate Silk's visit to Urth from Dorp (RTTW Ch 13) & his final visit from New Viron (Ch 19). But in both passages, Sev has Triskele, wherea…
15 Jul 2003, 10:34
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Marc says: The Porter is spooked by Silk, Hoof etc, but it seems to be mainly Hoof quickly fashioning a robe for himself while the Porter is watching him which does it. "So I mad…
14 Jul 2003, 03:11
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If Fair point. But the Marble/Mint error you mention IMO supports my position. That was the same kind of thing as Roy raised - Drotte-Roche etc - and arguably bigger, since Drotte…
14 Jul 2003, 02:51
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A small point re Silk & Malrubius. I hink the reason people see a physical connection between them is the scene in Ch 19 of RTTW where Gurloes is chastising Sev; Oreb flies in sqwa…
11 Jul 2003, 05:28
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The little dalliance scene in Ch.20 continues to bug me. I have a feeling it is quite important, maybe for the development of later books in the series, may they be written. What I…
23 Jun 2003, 14:28
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Crush: See my earlier post - apparently Tarquitius was indeed a variation on Tarquinius, and the whole family did go into exile for a while, ending up at Caere (wherever that is -…
23 Jun 2003, 13:58
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I SAUD Just continuing this idle speculation, if Lucius Tarquitius is in fact Latro, we get a back-story for why he should have been an exile. The Tarquitii were in fact the Tarqu…
23 Jun 2003, 06:51
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1. WTF is it all about??? (joke) 2. The chariot race I still can't get my head around: - Is the outcome as Diana wanted it to be, or not? Did she want Pausanias to win or lose? …
23 Jun 2003, 06:21
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This did occurr to me, but I always thought the story was probably BS. Anyway, C. was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, appointed dictator in 458, so maybe our Latro? Probably not, giv…
19 Jun 2003, 03:19
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How anachronistic are the glimpses we get? Eg: at the very start of Mist, Latro says that he would have though the commander of a warship would be a "horseman". Presumably by this …
16 Jun 2003, 01:30
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FWIW, I think that the King Jesus/Typhon business is a red herring. I think that Graves' construction of a Set/Typhon story from fragments of Roman/Greek slander against Jews & Chr…
12 Mar 2003, 10:19
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So I just finished reading TAD. There's the obvious hints at Tammuz/Attis/Osiris/Adonis (Green & all the other Billies) and Inanna/Cybele/Isis/Astarte (Lara). But as always, Wolfe'…
07 Feb 2003, 05:47
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I asked this: --- 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 sign from …
27 Jan 2003, 13:36
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This was probably obvious to most, but it only occurred to me on re-reading OBW. Prior to the opening, Mucor had made contact with the Mother, and as the story opens, Mucor (and pr…
26 Jan 2003, 02:37
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Just re-readring that enigmatic scene at the end of OBW, where Horn & Babbie seem to become confused with each other. Rather than this being Horn-into-Babbie, as I think Marc sug…
23 Jan 2003, 05:42
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I missed a Chras quote from RTTW when I posted on this topic previously. In the scene where SIlkHorn assists with the sacrifice in Viron, we get this passage: "A simple way would …
06 Jan 2003, 16:11
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James Jordan had this to say in a post a year ago: "Wolfe expressed to me that Mother Goddess worship is the essence of paganism. Those weren't his words, but the gist of our co…
03 Jan 2003, 07:27
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Shewing forth my Google powers, I found this picture of Seawrack (or her sister), a delightful piece of high Victorian erotic romanticsm, together with the Goethe ballad "Der Fisch…
02 Jan 2003, 13:36
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No mysteries here, just a little appreciation of Wolfe's craftsmanship. There are two (I think) quotes from the Chras. Writings in RTTW. Number One: "Though trodden beneath the s…
30 Dec 2002, 12:54
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[snippety] [snip snip] Me too! Wolfe places demands on readers to do much of the story-telling themselves; I like this, and I'm quite happy not to have a a "definitive" auctorial…
24 Dec 2002, 03:56
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Did anybody ever work out what the deal with Quadrifons is? Going back thru the archives, I see suggestions that Quadrifons is the name of a cherub. I'm sure that's true, but I'm …
21 Dec 2002, 02:57
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I noticed Robert Graves mentioned on the list a while back. I do get a sense that Wolfe refers to Graves at times. Eg - in an interview somewhere, with reference to Soldier in the …
18 Dec 2002, 17:13
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Just a collection of things on my mind, while I am thinking about Wolfe. I know some of the questions have been discussed, but I haven't seen any proposals which I ind convincing; …
18 Dec 2002, 13:44
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Not a Wolfean take on Nigerian "4-1-9" scams, but very damn funny nonetheless: Check out http://www.quatloos.com/brad-c/directory01.htm. Record of a guy's counter-scamming of the s…
11 Dec 2002, 03:03
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Two questions which bug me about SIlk, and for which I don't see any clear answers or developed theories in the archives: (1) His "other" parents. At some point Silk has a vision …
14 Jul 2002, 01:05
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Forgive a newbie for rehashing old hash, but the archives are a bit chaotic on Scylla & Oreb. Is this a plausible reading: Scylla possesses Oreb at the very beginning of NTLS, jus…
18 Apr 2002, 14:28
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After a few failed attempts to subscribe - Ha! Mainframe at last! Now to integrate ... Blue and Green whorls had me thinking of Blue & Green factions in the Roman & Byzantine worl…
18 Apr 2002, 08:52
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