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James Wynn writes: But, this isn't even beng mentioned in the context of this discussion. Why hasn't it come up? I am an Odinist - It's my religion. I have some problems …
20 Mar 2005, 23:46
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The problem of defining good and evil has not been exactly **unexamined** through history. Within the context of TWK, "well-adjusted" = "following the pattern of the Overcyns".…
20 Mar 2005, 10:34
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In fact, is Mythgarthr necessarily Mythgarthyr = the clearing where tales are told Midgard = Middle World = America Not the same…
28 Feb 2005, 12:28
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Iorwerth Thomas writes: Amazon.com has them all . . . ?????…
17 Feb 2005, 07:48
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Good heavens!!!!…
15 Feb 2005, 12:39
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Taylor Peter writes: It's the pattern of the universe as diagrammed in the WIZARD KNIGHT. Wolfe imagines the "pagan gods" as being of a lower order of being than the One go…
08 Feb 2005, 13:32
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I think so. I've tried to think of a less obvious explanation but none presents itself.…
08 Feb 2005, 08:27
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James Wynn writes: I think Wolfe might occasionally be trying to say that "honest slavery" is better than the things that replace it in his more dystopian stories. There ar…
05 Feb 2005, 12:53
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Maru Dubshinki writes: Dr Island says as much to Nicholas. I'm looking at page 106 of the Pocket Books edition. Sorry, I am too busy to transcribe it…
03 Feb 2005, 16:54
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Not at all. Doctor Island is indeed a nearly omnipotent Skinnerian conditioning machine, but he is not merely evil, but - more importantly - in error. He works on an estimate…
03 Feb 2005, 16:54
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This really doesn't mean any thing I can understand. How is it we are talking about Wolfe and Skinner without mentioning "The Death od Doctor Island", his most obviously ant…
03 Feb 2005, 16:53
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Nor do I Skinner's work pretty much comprised insisting that behaviour was mostly environment driven **or could only usefully be understood as such** and studying how this…
03 Feb 2005, 13:34
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James Wynn writes: I certainly didn't mean to be angry: I was trying to make a joke. Gotta work on that. I just like the Viking Answers Lady. :-) I know that the rest…
15 Jan 2005, 15:09
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Well the exact meaning of "setr" is "dairy-pasture" according to the Viking Answers Lady (whom it might be well to bookmark). http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ Pish tosh. Mere…
15 Jan 2005, 12:39
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Surely SETR = SURTUR the primaeval fire giant???…
15 Jan 2005, 10:26
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Stanis?aw Bocian writes: Save that very fine essay, Sir!!! Bravo…
11 Jan 2005, 14:25
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Yeah, I realised. Sorry Dave, I was addressing the list as a whole not you. My bad…
11 Jan 2005, 14:09
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David Lebling writes: I loved LEPANTO, and I like THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE even better.…
11 Jan 2005, 13:50
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There is no linkage between Catholic Conservatism and a support for "corporate capitalism". Quite the reverse. "Conservatism" in its origin stands for the conserving the tradi…
11 Jan 2005, 13:48
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Good heavens. May I congratulate you??? May I ask why I must point out that the insults were Orwell's. He is right in one thing - after an early efflorescence Chesterto…
11 Jan 2005, 11:08
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http://library.flawlesslogic.com/freya.jpg…
07 Jan 2005, 06:26
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stilskin writes: I'm moved to remember Abel's description of Lady Freya's house. "You're forever finding something new there, and it's always something good. Secret stairs le…
07 Jan 2005, 06:24
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stilskin writes: I've only read the Wizard Knight once: starting to reread now. Where is that mentioned?…
07 Jan 2005, 05:24
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James Wynn writes: One of the "places" Abel visits (with Toug) is Dream, which I assume is a dream-share realm of some sort. This seems more like a matter of alternate mo…
07 Jan 2005, 03:00
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Dave Rolsky writes: It's a parallel derivation, not a sequential one. LITTLE, BIG gets its cosmology through the Victorian legend of Fairies, which is derived from the dimini…
06 Jan 2005, 12:39
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James Wynn writes: Odd, this. It is not from the Norse, unlike nearly very thing else in TWK. There are plenty of stories of cohabitation between the gods and the giants, …
04 Jan 2005, 08:28
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Any thoughts on why the blood of the Angrborn is full of parasites? Aside from just making them seeem extra vile?…
04 Jan 2005, 01:07
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David Lebling writes: The Norse tradition also has the three Norns, called Urd, Skuld, and Verdandi, which are more-or-less congruent with the Fates in the Greaco-Roman branch …
03 Jan 2005, 09:00
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I don't know if it is relevant here, but the "Black Sun" is an Asatru/Odinistic mythical image connected to the source of wisdom. Essentially it is the "other side" of the sun - th…
10 Sep 2003, 06:29
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Nontheless, I really think we are missing something here. Wolfe talks at one point of "local" "solar" and "galactic" levels of technology, right? I think the fundamental signifi…
08 Sep 2003, 12:48
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The Sun is rather bigger, of the order of a million miles across, 100 times wider than the Earth. No perceptable fraction of its energy could have been needed up to reshape the Wh…
08 Sep 2003, 05:52
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----- Original Message ----- Well, even deep anaesthesia does not turn your brain off completely. But basically I think Typhon would not submit to havng his identity/soul/ka uplo…
07 Sep 2003, 06:31
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There is an obvious analog to Auk in the New Sun books - Hildegrim the badger. Like Auk, Hildegrim is tall, heavy, dark and strong, starts out as our hero's mentor, is morally am…
06 Sep 2003, 06:40
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This is, to me, an astonishing reaction, yet on reflection I can understand it. One of the notworthy things about LITTLE,BIG is that ultimately it does not conceal or soften the …
29 Jul 2003, 05:55
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You astonish me. There is no polite way to say "fuck you, jew boy" either, but the fact that you are presumably jewish does not give you a free pass to deal out racial insults lik…
28 Jul 2003, 15:49
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I wonder if it is a book that, like LOTR, has been imitated so often that it now may seem quaint and derivative to those soaked in the literary tradition it started? There have…
28 Jul 2003, 07:39
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I personally think it's a backhand statement of the fact that Severian is the Narrator. Wolfe's universe is a Catholic one, and in a Catholic universe The Narrator has a special p…
14 Jul 2003, 07:45
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In my opinion, Severian DOES build a "house of memory" - it is The Book Of The New Sun. And of course, the various actors in that House affect each other and mutate, as they did i…
30 Jun 2003, 13:35
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AND Hodgson's THE NIGHT LAND is of course rife with giganticism, with an eight-mile-tall arcology with hundred-mile-deep sublevels, mile-tall Watchers, giant Slugs, screaming moun…
19 Jun 2003, 20:08
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Ohhhhhhh yessssssss ----- Original Message -----…
18 Apr 2003, 22:05
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Moorcock is an intelligent but frightening, writer, who hides his values in most of his works, but spells out his plots. Wolfe is an intelligent but frightening writer who does …
18 Apr 2003, 20:22
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Come on, Wolfe is Electric Folk SF. Look at the themes of his work. hartshorn ----- Original Message -----…
18 Apr 2003, 15:47
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No, that was me bought that. Liege and Leaf FAIRPORT CONVENTION are a bunch of '70s Electric Folkies. Some overlap with The Strawbs, but "music for hippies" doesn't cut it. …
18 Apr 2003, 07:06
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They use lifting bodies: Severian comments on it somewhere, how this strange flier with wings was built by someone who didn't realise he could simply shape the entire craft ----…
16 Apr 2003, 06:15
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----- Original Message ----- Odd. Wolfe is quite honest about the importance of race in human behaviour. I mentioned that passage to an e-friend who had been in a mental insit…
09 Apr 2003, 18:59
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The one about The Mile Long Space Ship, in the library in TFHOC hartshorn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phoebe Davis" <meezer_gal at yahoo.com> To: <urth at urth.net>…
07 Apr 2003, 21:31
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Very sorry to hear this, Nigel hartshorn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Price" <nigel.aprice at virgin.net> . But, to end on a personal note, this has…
26 Mar 2003, 07:44
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I am sorry, but this is reason, and divine charity knows nothing of reason. As for Typhon doing all this - bankrupting the Earth, killing thousands, wounding the Sun - those calle…
15 Mar 2003, 08:49
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"Against the Lafatette Escadrille" I think (spelling dicy) hartshorn ----- Original Message -----…
19 Feb 2003, 16:10
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He he he . . . I love MacDonald, But I agree, he's DEFINITELY kinky. But it's the Goddess, you see. Mother R*d**bt. :) She demands the status of divinity. And if you won…
22 Jan 2003, 13:19
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