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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, no - don't thank me; thank Google! :)…
30 Dec 2002, 23:05
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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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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 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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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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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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----- Original Message ----- Parallels maybe between the Brown Book stories (plus the other "fairy stories") and the story told by "Loyal to the Group of 17". In both cases, narra…
18 Apr 2002, 16:52
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----- Original Message ----- Here's a half-baked reading of this story. I take it as very pertinent to Jonas, and perhaps Serverian reading it to him is the final straw in Jonas' …
18 Apr 2002, 16:09
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----- Original Message ----- The team colors went back as early as anyone discover in Roman (pre-Imperial) history. The factions became an important factor (so to speak) around t…
18 Apr 2002, 14:54
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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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You're right, of course. I mean "factions", subgroups warring for no reason other than factionality, rather than substantive "divisions" such as, say, Good vs Bad. Wolfe sure ain't…
18 Apr 2002, 10:58
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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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