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Very briefly: in "Hamlet's Mill", Santillana and Dechend describe the technical vocabulary of myth, an ancient and extremely widespread astronomically based terminology. A number o…
07 Sep 2003, 02:25
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What evidence do you have that Wolfe has ever bought into this kind of Velikovskite claptrap? .…
07 Sep 2003, 02:07
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I'm not. I'm here. .…
04 Sep 2003, 07:19
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No, bugs are undocumented features. These are merely poorly documented. Most of them have been well documented at one time or another, but the documentation has been lost, suppres…
20 Aug 2003, 12:18
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More like I forgot. I don't think they'd mind, I assume you don't mind, and so I am Cc'ing the list now. What the heck, I say. I sure don't know. A bit of excitement with the st…
19 Aug 2003, 19:41
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You'd want a tunable laser. . ___…
19 Aug 2003, 18:44
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Among other things. I've seen the drawing. It's in a book somewhere around here. I don't know about any of this. I do know that time is really interesting, and has a number of …
19 Aug 2003, 17:26
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There is no doubt that Typhon recognizes Severian. The people who disagree with this are wrong. I am sorry, sometimes things are best said very bluntly. . ___…
19 Aug 2003, 15:01
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The avatar normally doesn't talk about being an avatar. It's, like, a rule or a law or whatever you want to call it.'Once privately, once formally, once publicly' is how it goes. …
19 Aug 2003, 14:59
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Thanks, but I've had mine for a couple of years now. J. ___…
19 Aug 2003, 04:27
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Wonderful, thoughtful post. J. ___…
16 Aug 2003, 04:53
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Not unless they started in Uganda (or Ethiopia); the Nile flows from South to North. They are sailing up the Nile. I wonder if they are going to use the canal. Sidon's a good pla…
16 Aug 2003, 04:52
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I've found that most people do better if they work up to 'Hamlet's Mill'. I generally recommend that people first read Anthony Aveni's 'Stairways to the Stars' and William Sulliva…
09 Aug 2003, 04:07
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I'm still waiting to hear, one way or another, about GW's interest or lack of same in this. Might take a while to do so. J. ___…
01 Aug 2003, 14:09
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It's about my favorite J Crowley, mostly. Very good. I will check out the archives. Meanwhile, I would like to respect your desire not to open another discussion about 'Little…
29 Jul 2003, 16:47
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Excuse me, when you've been doing qabalah for thirty-five years you take some wierd things for granted: Baldanders Baldy Ba d rs ldan e y Bad SR Delany Now, like I'v…
29 Jul 2003, 14:15
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Yes. Well. I find it interesting that the only person here who *really* has understood what I meant by my original, regrettable and regretted remark has been Dan'l Danehy-Oakes hi…
29 Jul 2003, 14:06
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% e. I really like the way that you think. Thecla's friend asked if the Fish was real, Father Inire told her that for an image to exist without something to reflect it is an im…
29 Jul 2003, 06:26
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Well! You are certainly entitled to your opinion. I disagree with it. But it is obvious that you are offended, and I don't mind apologizing to you. I'm sorry, William. If you ca…
29 Jul 2003, 05:37
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Did you like 'The Deep'? I do not agree that this is an accurate description of what happens to the characters. Are you seriously stating that this book horrified you because it…
29 Jul 2003, 03:11
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I don't think I've even heard of that one. As I say, I have not read 'Hogg'. I am given to understand, however, that one of the main characters (perhaps the viewpoint) is a seven …
29 Jul 2003, 00:41
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You are probably thinking of 'Hogg'. Delany, BTW, questions its appellation as 'pornography'. He said, if I recall correctly, that people read pornography to become sexually excite…
29 Jul 2003, 00:06
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OK then. J. ___…
28 Jul 2003, 18:13
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Yeah, I astonish myself sometimes. What does being a Jew have to do with anything? I am, in fact, ethnically ashkenazi, but everyone who sees me considers me to be a white person…
28 Jul 2003, 18:08
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OK, Dan, apparently I misread what you were saying. Which I misinterpreted. Everyone out here is a bit sensitive about this issue. Lots of people, especially in the whiter parts …
28 Jul 2003, 17:23
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For your information, I live in a three bedroom house with a big yard and garden in a very nice, very middle class, very quiet neighborhood. There are rough neighborhoods in East …
28 Jul 2003, 16:40
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Well, yes. If Wolfe is the Catholic writer, Crowley is the Brunian/Gnostic/Hermetic whatever-you-want-to-call-it Religion Mundi (that's the term!) writer (to draw a false exempla…
28 Jul 2003, 15:28
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Hmm. I find 'Little, Big' to be deeply moving. I don't guess I can answer. Maybe it's like jazz. Louis Armstrong was asked to explain jazz. He said 'If you have to ask, you'll ne…
28 Jul 2003, 01:33
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I think, if it happens at all, it is going to be the first twelve people to put a deposit down. Either that or some kind of lottery. As always, I welcome comments and input. J.…
27 Jul 2003, 19:19
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Which part don't you get? J. ___…
27 Jul 2003, 17:15
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I doubt strongly that it will happen this year. If and when I do start doing the actual work on this, I will be asking for input from people who have said that they might want to g…
27 Jul 2003, 15:46
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So would I. I hope that this implies that you are also willing to pay to hang out with Gene Wolfe, assuming that he goes for it. The more of you say yes, the easier this is going…
27 Jul 2003, 04:45
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That's great. Hopefully Gene Wolfe will let us know under what conditions he would be willing to do this, and I can get to work. J. ___…
26 Jul 2003, 23:35
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Assuming Gene Wolfe is interested in doing this, timing is very open and would be arranged for convenience, with (as I mentioned) the writer's convenience coming before the other …
26 Jul 2003, 22:12
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Whatever Gene Wolfe wants to talk about, is the plan. This event is for the writer more than it is for the other participant, though I hope and expect that they will be finding it …
26 Jul 2003, 21:30
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I am thinking of ways to make it much less expensive. Providing one fine meal a day, snacks and beverages will help. Can't do much about transportation costs, but I do have quite…
26 Jul 2003, 21:22
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Absolutely. If I am to have anything to do with it, it will be in the Bay Area, or at least the first one will be. If someone else wants to do it without me, somewhere else, plea…
26 Jul 2003, 21:12
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The center of the World, of course. East San Jose. But really, this could be done anywhere in the Bay Area. It's centrally located! J. ___…
26 Jul 2003, 20:49
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Here's a detail that might make this more attractive as a general proposal: Everything in the sessions will be recorded, transcribed, marketed and (if possible) published, with an…
26 Jul 2003, 20:48
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What you are talking about and what I am talking about are two different things. You can do whatever you like, as long as you are willing to do the work. I am willing to do a lot…
26 Jul 2003, 15:45
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I was thinking less. Like, free if possible. If we are talking ten or twelve people and an internet hookup I could do it in my house. There are probably better places, in fact I c…
26 Jul 2003, 15:28
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Very easy to arrange. Sounds good. Who else? J. ___…
26 Jul 2003, 14:08
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As I say, I am wondering how much I would pay for a week's writing class with Gene Wolfe. The answer is at least a couple of hundred dollars, perhaps more. I wonder further. I won…
26 Jul 2003, 13:16
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What I was wondering was how much I'd pay for a week in a writing class with Gene Wolfe. ___…
26 Jul 2003, 12:22
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In a fifteen hundred page book? Without a computer? No one, as far as I know, is arguing that Gene Wolfe has a perfect memory. .…
12 Jul 2003, 16:31
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Perhaps 'branch' is not quite the exact term. But the Library extends to the City, as well as to the Citadel and the House Absolute. This is explicit. .…
10 Jul 2003, 16:33
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Actually, I misspoke slightly. I think that they do have mechanical printing, but not much need for it because the society is mostly illiterate. Exactly. But I think what I say s…
10 Jul 2003, 16:15
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That's what he says. How extensive is the Library again? Doesn't Severian remark to the effect that 'surely the rabble of the city are not permitted here'? I don't recall him rec…
10 Jul 2003, 15:55
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By some qabalists, perhaps, I haven't run across it in thirty years of doing qabalah, but I don't know everything, and there are lots of different schools of qabalah. The word 'ale…
10 Jul 2003, 15:55
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By some qabalists, perhaps, I haven't run across it in thirty years of doing qabalah, but I don't know everything, and there are lots of different schools of qabalah. The word 'ale…
10 Jul 2003, 15:55
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