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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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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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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 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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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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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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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: <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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<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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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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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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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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<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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< a silent-looking woman who gripped a double-bladed dagger and sat beneath a mortuary mask.> I don't know why Lady Macbeth comes to mind. I would say it is either an old painting…
08 May 1998, 21:51
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FunkMonkey, <Do you really believe that the tomb of the Conciliator would remain unguarded, open and accessable.> I guess not... <Maybe the tomb is really Sev1 who returns to Ur…
04 May 1998, 02:07
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Mantis said: <Still unaccounted for: Severian armiger of the mausoleum in the necropolis at the Citadel of the Autarch.> The fact that people believe in Sev's time that the Concil…
03 May 1998, 17:30
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Mantis said: <"Korea was just mentioned a few pages before [before Jonas started speaking a foreign language]." Really? Mentioned by name? I must have slept through that. Unles…
02 May 1998, 02:23
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Viz said: <(b) he already succeeded in bringing it as it's there powering the Claw.> I've always thought that the Claw was powered, not by the White Fountain, but by the will of t…
02 May 1998, 02:22
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Mantis said: <Fact two. Jonas and Hethor talking some kinda foreign language(s).> Can you provide citation for Hethor's speaking in a foreign tongue? < That someplace important…
02 May 1998, 02:22
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Mantis hypothesised: <where he was about to grusomely kill the drover whose whip had struck Dorcas, <shazam!> drover killed by his own horses.> I think myself that that was a more…
02 May 1998, 02:22
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Pedro Jorge said: That's the one. Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com> http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html…
17 Apr 1998, 18:58
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Mantis said: Um, doesn't Severian find out she remarried *after* he revives the assassin? I blieve Odilo or Pelagia tells him after the Flood. And there always seemed something Ch…
29 Mar 1998, 01:25
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Kevin said: Don't bother; if everyone else rambles on and on about our inane topics, no reason you can't either <g> Welcome to the list. There are those among us here, mostly epo…
29 Mar 1998, 01:25
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Dan said: Yes, but Severian's main point in his collected memoirs is that all men are torturers at heart, and Gurloes fits in with this idea. Christopher R. Culver <crculver@aol.…
27 Mar 1998, 21:29
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Probably they go back to Buddhism. According to Mahayana Buddhism, the Buddha made his robes from the cloth strewn around the Ganges, funeral wrappings, menstural napkins, and all …
26 Mar 1998, 02:32
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Oh, I don't think anyone is arguing that KLS's name is not Korean, but Mantis believes the language of *Jonas* is not Korean. They may have been different, as at this stage of wri…
22 Mar 1998, 01:49
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Mantis said: coincidence" within the elaborate labyrinth of a Wolfe fiction?< No, that's also why I think Jonas speaks Korean, because Korea was mentioned in the following chapte…
18 Mar 1998, 20:33
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Forget that whole letter. I was writing late at night, where the words "Hethor" and "Jonas" begin to look the same. Nevermind me. My reason that I reject Chinese is because Sev do…
17 Mar 1998, 20:25
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Mantis said: So Severian is hallucinating someone babbling? Hmm, is this Wolfe's way to throw some of the Christian phenomenon of glossolalia in there? I don't believe it shows up…
16 Mar 1998, 19:57
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Alga said: He certainly speaks Korean. See the description of his feverish ramblings in the Antechamber. Severian notes that Jonas was talking in a nasal, monosyllabic language. K…
16 Mar 1998, 03:55
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Mantis said: But that would make Hethor pretty darn old, wouldn't it? I mean, the antichamber prisoners speak of Kimleesoong as far back in time, and although Hethor is "a dirty o…
14 Mar 1998, 21:58
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Dan Parmenter said: But still, the fact that they would remember that ancient name from our time is staggering and improbable. I still think Kim Lee Soong was a sailor who returne…
13 Mar 1998, 21:00
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Said Alga: Well, I wasn't looking for specific examples, really, though I do thank those who have since posted some I was unaware of. What I did want were thoughts of people who m…
12 Mar 1998, 03:11
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Said Alga: Well, I wasn't looking for specific examples, really, though I do thank those who have since posted some I was unaware of. What I did want were thoughts of people who m…
12 Mar 1998, 03:04
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I'm not sure he actively tries to kill himself, but he does seem to feel that his death would be no big loss, because he has already completed the greatest act in his life (and hum…
08 Mar 1998, 23:03
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The Severian Quintet needs to be scanned into Word or Wordperfect, so we can search for themes like this. I've thought the same thing. It would be a great help for we BotNS schola…
09 Feb 1998, 20:17
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THe idea that Severian is spatially dyslexic has arisen before. I believe the example used then is how he got lost on the Ship even when he had the correct directions and remembere…
06 Feb 1998, 16:39
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