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In a message dated 6/9/99 9:08:17 AM EST, MAB at lindau.net writes: << BTW, speaking of variations in burial customs, isn't a significant component of the crashed-starship theory th…
09 Jun 1999, 14:10
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Friends, With such wonderful activity, there is no need for an off-topic message to have some signs of life, but perhaps it may be excused. I am presently about 50 pages into BL…
30 May 1999, 03:04
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I saw at Barnes & Noble the other day the Orb one-volume reissue of _Wraeththu_ by Storm Constantine, and have thought about buying it. I notice it is similar to stories like the…
30 Apr 1999, 01:29
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In a message dated 4/21/99 2:25:20 AM EST, orik at sprint.ca writes: << Unless I've forgotten or misread TBONS, which is of course emminently possible, the Hierodules and their mast…
21 Apr 1999, 23:24
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Alex Groce said: << Wolfe's "trying to remember who killed who in that book" suggests there's more than one hidden crime in PEACE>> Wasn't he talking about OPERATION ARES with th…
14 Apr 1999, 00:11
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In a message dated 4/1/99 8:23:30 PM EST, MAB at lindau.net writes: << For what it's worth, Chatelaine Thea thought English, a dead language remembered by a few scholars in her time…
09 Apr 1999, 22:07
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In late 1997, there was a discussion of "Eschatology and Genesis" which was essentially my introduction to the list, and now it is archived in the 5th volumes of the archives. Now …
30 Mar 1999, 22:14
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Roy C. Lackey said: <<Actually, it was the other way around. Sev had the pomegranate, Dorcas an apple in _Shadow_, chapter XXXIV.>> Whoa, looks like I was way off. Anyway, if Dorc…
25 Mar 1999, 23:47
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I've long thought that the scene in the BotNS in which Dorcas is eating a pomegranate (cannot remember the volume, but I believe it is the second), has some interesting symbolism. …
23 Mar 1999, 18:43
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<<I couldn't agree that the message of "Prufrock" is "old age is a living death". If it's summed up anywhere, it's in the lines "Do I dare\Disturb the universe?" It's about a life …
28 Feb 1999, 22:25
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Shellac wrote: <<The Wolfean Naming Rule clearly doesn't always work, since the Salamander is no newt (though it does resemble a certain Newt after a fashion, it flames and flames …
26 Feb 1999, 00:35
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1) I don't know the origin of the word "Madregot" (the name of the Brook beyond Briah), but perhaps it is related to the Spanish word "Madrugada," which means "dawn." This seems to…
25 Feb 1999, 11:58
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William Ansley said: <<The haunted hotel that Weer's Aunt Bella describes in her article "Ghost-Chaser Number Three" actually seems to be a case of a temporal cross-over; perhaps W…
31 Jan 1999, 00:05
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Wombat said: <<Here are a few Wolfe FAQs which have nothing to do with BotNS and one which does but isn't *about* BotNS: "What's up with Dennis Weer?" "Which egg contained the ha…
26 Jan 1999, 17:21
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Phantasma said: <Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov> A ha! I've been waiting for someone to mention PF, as I've always thought it similar to Borges who is similar to Wolfe. (Note: it may…
26 Jan 1999, 03:53
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David Duffy said: <<I think they are characters in a dream, based on those waiting in one or more actual visits to the doctor.>> So Weer conjures them up just like he does the doc…
26 Jan 1999, 03:50
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Mantis suggested: <<Here's a thought--maybe a committee (a "FAQulty," if you will) could begin the process of whipping up a FAQ ("Frequently Asked Questions" and the Answers to The…
26 Jan 1999, 03:24
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How quiet this list has been lately. We have not discussed everything in the non-LS works of Wolfe, so their is not reason no one is talking. I'm re-reading PEACE, and this time I…
24 Jan 1999, 01:08
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Vizcacha said: <What sort of man is he? He's something of a manipulator of women, as evidenced by his various relationships.> I'm not so sure. After all, he was enough of a gentl…
05 Nov 1998, 03:32
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Alga wrote: <Interesting, for instance, Silk's blind faith in his Outsider> But Wolfe has said that the Outsider is "a spiritual god," which to me means the Outsider is the Pancre…
30 Oct 1998, 01:49
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Raster spoke: <Severian is not a veteran aviator; he has difficulty with directions; the Citadel is a big place, and the Atrium is a small place, and none of the old maps fit.> Ye…
11 Oct 1998, 02:46
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Robert Borski said: <I'm also wondering, in light of the above, if anyone can link the two (Valeria, Azure) to the passage in CITADEL where Severian, recalling the first time he me…
09 Oct 1998, 23:04
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Mantis wrote: <While I don't for a minute suppose that the pelerines would have one of their own sent to the Matachin Tower for any crime, let alone something as mild as breaking a…
09 Oct 1998, 23:04
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It's been suggested that Valeria in the BotNS is based upon Valeria Mescalina, er, Messalina, who was the third wife of the Emperor Claudius. Going through a dictionary of classica…
09 Oct 1998, 19:22
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I know from reading a reading in a Spanish textbook once that Foila's tale, "The Armigette's Daughter," comes from a Latin American folktale called "El Pajaro de Siete Colores," or…
07 Oct 1998, 22:49
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Jon Camfield said: <Related question: are the distances in the Brook Madregot logarithmic? Have we ever come up with further references to Madregot than the kabbalistic ones? (reme…
03 Oct 1998, 22:52
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Robert Borski said: <Time for me to add my speculations to the mix, since, to the best of my knowledge, no one's yet mentioned the woman I think is Sev's sister. I believe we meet…
03 Oct 1998, 02:06
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Marc wrote: <OK, the "obvious" guess for what caused Apu-Punchau's eclipse is the ship. But, why would Tzadkiel bother to help Severian in such a situation?> I don't think it was…
03 Oct 1998, 01:58
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Jay Lake said: <How big is that freaking sabertache anyway?> I don't know, but if it wasn't so anachronistic and out-of-fashion, I'd have already bought or made one. Those things …
01 Oct 1998, 01:53
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jdr8d at cs.virginia.edu (John Regehr) said: <About a week ago I ran across the archive for the Urth list. Four somewhat daunting megabytes later, I've finished reading it, and I'm i…
27 Sep 1998, 02:27
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For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to get some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE FREE. Is it worth buying? Wha…
20 Sep 1998, 22:57
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<They are Severian's children. Sev makes this quite clear (or about as clear as he makes anything <g>) at the end of Urth. WHAT?!?! That's the wackiest solution yet (though I'm no…
03 Sep 1998, 22:31
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<???--Father Inire. He's a hunched little guy, a Daedalus or Hephaestus or Toth, and since Toth is the most ancient I tend to think of Inire as being something like Toth's totem, …
03 Sep 1998, 00:03
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Mantis said: <Or do they just grow up into those silent giant statues that roam the gardens of the House Absolute?> I thought it was pretty well established that those are electr…
02 Sep 1998, 21:27
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Friends, Is it just my imagination, or is the scene in the Jungle Hut in the BotNS a recap of "The Death of Doctor Island:" The characters seem similar to me: Robert - Nicholas M…
02 Sep 1998, 21:20
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Peter Westlake wrote: <Isn't it only Baldanders who says they have short lives?> In the tenth year of his autarchy, in the chapter called "Ressurection," Severian writes, "old, tw…
02 Sep 1998, 19:36
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Mantis said: <we know that O is a machine raising the child-like (if not actually juvenile) B&F> The fact that Barbatus and Famulimus are consistently child-like puzzles me. If th…
02 Sep 1998, 08:37
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Tony A. West said: <Hey everyone/anyone... Does anyone know why, after being released for only like three years, Lake of the Long sun is now out of print??> I know Tor Books is o…
31 Aug 1998, 01:24
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Dan Parmenter wrote: <Interestingly enough, Wolfe calls [the Book of Imaginary Beings] "second-rate Borges" and it is, though it's got some dazzling parts.> The BoIB is not an exa…
29 Aug 1998, 10:50
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Wolfe said in the interview with James B. Jordan: "I wanted to do the rooms that were recreations and rooms that [Weer] had known as a very young man and I didn't think that anyb…
28 Aug 1998, 04:57
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William Ansley said: <I read the book three times before I realized that Weer was dead.> That's common with Wolfe's books. I read the BotNS three times before I came to grasp basi…
25 Aug 1998, 06:34
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William Ansley said: <It is as certain as anything can be in a Wolfe book that Weer is dead...from internal evidence...> I don't think so... And continued: <...and because Wolfe…
24 Aug 1998, 05:36
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Jason Voegele wrote: <Whoa there! That's a BIG can of worms.> But so is every Wolfe book. <g> <We had quite a good discussion of PEACE early on in the list, so you should be ab…
23 Aug 1998, 23:16
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Friends, I've just recently returned to my home from a vacation to the southern states. While there, I read _Peace,_ and I have no idea what it was about. Is Alden Dennis Weer a t…
23 Aug 1998, 05:37
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Alex: < Has there been any discussion on the list (sorry, I'm new and haven't had time to exhaustively browse the archives) of similarities between Severian and Claudius, both the …
17 Jul 1998, 03:56
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Adam asked: This is, IMHO, rather simple. The Hierogrammates are theological beings who serve the Pancreator. As such, they judge the sentient beings of their area and decide whet…
14 Jul 1998, 20:08
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We've talked of the Book of Gold as a rite-of-passage symbol, but is there any evidence that the BoG is actually a plated copy of Canog's BotNS itself? Christopher R. Culver <crcu…
14 Jul 1998, 20:08
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<5) My final question is one that probably only Wolfe can answer, though the answer may be in some interview. We know that _Urth of the New Sun_ was not part of Wolfe's original i…
18 Jun 1998, 05:02
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After a forced absence (I haven't read FHoC, darnit!) I am happy to be contributing now that the BotNS is being discussed again. Mantis said: <But there is the "isochronon," a gif…
13 Jun 1998, 01:50
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Mark Kelly said: <I noticed that Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com> on this list has a quote from Brendan Perry (half of the group) in his .sig., so I can't be the only perso…
28 May 1998, 19:26
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