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_The Lathe of Heaven_ is a decent encapsulation of LeGuin's taoism, methinks. ----- Original Message ---- Yes. This is how I feel. I don't care much about the moral questions …
26 Nov 2008, 18:22
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Just a note: I don't think Price wants to go full on postmodern with Wolfe. It's not that the book says "anything goes." Quite the opposite. It's just that deciding on the ultimate…
26 Nov 2008, 18:17
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Price's book argues that's what's most interesting about Wolfe is the relationship he creates with the reader. He's more interested with the process through which Wolfe makes his r…
26 Nov 2008, 17:17
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Of course you're right that the metaphorical suggestion is there. But what I think others are trying to do is to figure out exactly how far the metaphor carries. It's one thing to …
25 Nov 2008, 05:00
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Ah, thank you guys! This is what I get for jumping back into the conversation with only Sword and Claw fresh in my mind. I think I will, with belated wisdom, keep my ramblings to m…
23 Nov 2008, 17:07
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Where and when, exactly? I've never been sure if I quite caught what was going on with that. (Am I dense and it's apparent to everyone else?) ----- Original Message ---- From: "…
23 Nov 2008, 05:45
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There is, of course, the "secret" of the Guild which Palaemon and Gurloes tell Severian when he's made journeyman. Some people on the list have, interestingly enough, speculated th…
22 Nov 2008, 20:18
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This idea in particular has always seemed particularly compelling to me given what happens at the end of the Short Sun. I've always thought that we were supposed to contrast Silk a…
21 Nov 2008, 21:25
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A big mea culpa: I spent a lot of time last night (too much...now I'm so behind on grading) rereading _Urth_ and the synopsis from Sirius Fiction. There are some rather important d…
21 Nov 2008, 15:32
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Son of Witz, I think our difference may have less to do with "ethics" or "religion" and more to do with how we see the symbols operating in the book. You're absolutely correct tha…
21 Nov 2008, 07:10
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First, I didn't mean to sound like I was attacking you, which seems to be how you took my post. My apologies for that. And I'm sorry that you felt the need to defend your position …
21 Nov 2008, 01:14
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You've got to admit that's about a slippery a statement as they come: "I wanted Severian to have to face at least the possibility that being an agency of pain and death is not n…
20 Nov 2008, 22:49
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I see that in my previous post, I've come late to a discussion that already covered some of the ground I mentioned. My apologies. (Also for being the second to post that quote from…
20 Nov 2008, 22:07
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John Watkins said: In his interview with James Jordan, Wolfe says just what you've said about Severian: "I don't think of Severian as being a Christ figure; I think of Severian a…
20 Nov 2008, 21:26
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It's always nice to be reminded of your razor, Mr. Occam. ----- Original Message ---- From: John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.u…
13 Nov 2008, 21:17
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Just a small point on Severian's coloring, but I was just looking back over Cyriaca's story in _Sword_, and, at one point, Severian mentions looking down at his "brown fingers." Sh…
13 Nov 2008, 20:58
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At the risk of being gruesome, does anyone know if Wolfe has made any arrangements for his papers, drafts, and what not to be housed anywhere after he passes?…
09 Nov 2008, 23:08
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I'm responding to this at the risk of taking the list off the topic of Wolfe, but I think I can bring it back. Isn't Marc Aramini's position essentially Severian's? It reminds me v…
06 Nov 2008, 05:52
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I just reread “Has Anyone Seen Junie Moon?” after reading John’s question last week. I haven’t processed much yet, but here are my initial reactions. And I’ll apologize in advance …
14 Oct 2008, 03:38
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Speaking of EG reviews, there's one up on the Strange Horizons website, as well: http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/10/an_evil_guest_b.shtml ----- Original Message ---…
13 Oct 2008, 19:34
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Thanks for posting this! I got the email after work, turned around and headed back to the city. Worth the 1.5 hour drive. Very small group: only about 10 people or so, but also qui…
19 Sep 2008, 04:14
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On Able's morality, Wolfe did say in an interview that TWK was inspired as a traditional chivalric romance except without the Christian worldview of the Middle Ages. Instead, you g…
24 Sep 2007, 16:52
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It's a bit hard to find, but the collection _Lafferty in Orbit_ (of his stories from Damon Knight's _Orbit_) is quite a good source for small doses of very strong Lafferty. There a…
23 Jul 2007, 14:00
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I'm curious what you might mention as valuable and worthwhile when trying to convince people to read Wolfe. I say this only partly to ask what you feel this reviewer omits. But it'…
29 May 2007, 19:44
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I just finished TWK for the second time, and, after rereading the archives, I thought I’d throw something out there: I’m not entirely convinced that we’re supposed to idealize Abl…
28 May 2007, 17:59
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You beat me to my next post (which I was saving until I finished _Wizard_ again). I haven't yet decided how strong the connection between the books might actually be. At the very …
18 May 2007, 18:46
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Roy, I’m so glad you took another look at the book (and at my ideas). The more I think about it, the more I agree that the jumbled mythologies are so “messy” that it may not be fr…
17 May 2007, 02:44
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And while he's treading water, you can sing Happy Birthday to Lovecraft (thanks to Garrisson Keillor's Writer's Almanac). Craig urth-request at urth.net…
20 Aug 2003, 13:59
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Speaking of old Faerie epics, I keep reading references to the Huon of Bordeaux cycle. Does anyone know of a good edition/translation of these stories?…
28 Jul 2003, 16:15
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Not to get too far off of Crowley, but... Josh Geller <brunians at brunians.org> pontificated: I'm not sure it's quite so categorical as that. By "private" I would assume that Crowl…
28 Jul 2003, 15:13
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"Alice K. Turner" supposed: I'd have to agree with most of this and add that LB is the kind of book that I could only enjoy now after having read a lot of other stuff that's becom…
28 Jul 2003, 13:57
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More musings: If you've never read it, I highly suggest Samuel R. Delany's "The Jewel Hinged Jaw." I don't know if it's still in print or not, but he has a fascinating discussion o…
24 Apr 2003, 18:15
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I know this is a rather unphilosophical take on what is a fascinating issue, but it seems that the issue of "real" worlds in fiction is much more of a historically generic issue. …
24 Apr 2003, 18:03
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