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It was also Tolkien's, as expressed through many letters. I do not cringe in fear. I use the tools society provides. And I'm sorry to see you participating in such blatant homo-h…
07 Jul 2010, 18:25
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Almost. What it is is an attempt to create a mythology from scratch (albeit using patterns from other mythologies).…
07 Jul 2010, 18:05
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2010/7/7 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: That's hard to answer since FI is (almost) entirely offstage and it isn't clear according to what processes he acts. I beli…
07 Jul 2010, 17:54
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2010/7/7 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: It's a matter of not doing a good job of integrating one's infodumps.…
07 Jul 2010, 17:43
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Sorry for the blank message; I clicked when I should have clacked. Anyway. So if I were to speculate, say, that Dorcas was not human, would that be worth considering? Why or why …
07 Jul 2010, 17:35
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07 Jul 2010, 17:30
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2010/7/7 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: Try reading "Of Beleriand and its Realms" without falling asleep.…
07 Jul 2010, 17:28
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2010/7/7 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: It is indeed a book. What it is not is a novel.…
07 Jul 2010, 17:02
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2010/7/7 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: I agree completely. And I need to reiterate: disappointment was my _initial_ reaction. My esteem for the book has grown over…
07 Jul 2010, 16:51
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Heavens, no. There were only slight hints of it in _LotR_. For me, any one of "The Ainulindale," "Of Turin Turambar," and "The Fall of Gondolin" entirely justifies the existence of…
07 Jul 2010, 16:49
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2010/7/7 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>: No; I meant that, having spent four days in Stamboul, a fifth day that takes me back to the things I've already seen seems p…
07 Jul 2010, 16:31
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I don't think I'd go so far as "every detail," but certainly the broad outlines, both of plot and of -- for lack of a better word -- cosmology can be. My first reaction when I read…
07 Jul 2010, 16:04
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...not to mention very prominently in _The Sorcerer's House_. Weapons as such are morally neutral objects. It is their use that is morally fraught. As the saying goes, "Gods don't…
02 Jul 2010, 19:02
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Has anyone given any serious consideration to the idea that they are "fallen" Yesodi? Hieresiarchs, as it were?…
02 Jul 2010, 18:58
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Good heavens, explaining the plot isn't _that_ difficult. "A young man is exiled from the Torturer's Guild for the crime of mercy. He meets many interesting people, has a variety …
01 Jul 2010, 18:11
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I'm taking them to heart. The question is, whether to take them to the Hayfork police. Making threats on the internet is illegal, you know.…
01 Jul 2010, 17:33
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Josh, someone who insists on medieval definitions of words like "planet" _is_ a pedant. If you find that offensive, look in the mirror.…
01 Jul 2010, 16:37
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Coff. Coff. Pot. Kettle.…
01 Jul 2010, 16:06
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Oops. Apologies to both.…
30 Jun 2010, 19:39
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Not necessarily: but it casts some doubt on whether the Hiero*foos are doing God's work.…
30 Jun 2010, 18:48
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It's relevant because a race that creates a (slave) race is usurping the privilege of the Creator -- is in fact acting in daemonic manner.…
30 Jun 2010, 18:31
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...and some day they'll want us.…
28 Jun 2010, 20:32
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That's, Ah say, that's _Oook_, sun.…
28 Jun 2010, 19:15
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At this point perhaps a reading of the medieval poem "The Pearl" would be in order. Or perhaps not.…
25 Jun 2010, 20:49
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Hethor's paracoita. I am not convinced of this but could be.…
17 Jun 2010, 17:46
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OK - this works for me, and, along with Josh's point that Hethor is known to be attracted to robots, has convinced me that this is at least a plausible theory, if not quite a dead …
17 Jun 2010, 17:36
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I am reminded of some things Alan Moore said about _Watchmen_ when it was first coming out. The first thing he said was that everything in _Watchmen_ means something. The second …
17 Jun 2010, 16:33
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This is getting ridiculous. Agila must be human -- she has to be related to Severian -- after all, he's sexually attracted to her...…
17 Jun 2010, 16:19
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In fairness, for those who receive the list as a digest, that is the form of the subject header they get. They would have to change the subject header in order to keep it the same,…
08 Jun 2010, 15:34
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No; Middle-earth (or, more properly, Arda) goes back to long before his famous "bargain" with Lewis. He began writing what would become _The Silmarillion_ during WWI. The product …
05 Jun 2010, 16:59
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Yes, it's in Reno.…
04 Jun 2010, 19:49
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A good question -- and one without clear answers. Certainly the Chiasmic (?) Writings quote from the Bible, but they quote from other things too. The order of the liturgy in the Ch…
04 Jun 2010, 19:22
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I'm not sure how trustworthy a source Lemur is...…
04 Jun 2010, 17:37
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I think it's #2 that gives some people heartburn.…
03 Jun 2010, 22:21
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Actually, Wolfe has specifically _denied_ that any of his heroes are Christ-figures, and prefers the term "Christian figure."…
03 Jun 2010, 19:54
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Did you eat a thesaurus or something?…
03 Jun 2010, 17:29
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I think _we_ wouldn't be doing any such thing because we wouldn't have been born. A world without the Mosaic religions would be so different that the human landscape would be utter…
03 Jun 2010, 16:52
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Actually, Twain left behind a huge and very frank autobiography and instructions that it not be published for at least a century after his death. He died in 1910, and the first vol…
24 May 2010, 17:50
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Rome has spoken, and there is an end of the matter.…
24 May 2010, 16:52
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I'm sorry you're so trapped in semantics. Meditation might help.…
24 May 2010, 16:30
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Perhaps it would help if I explained that "voluntary enforcement" is a fancy way of saying "civilized behavior." Probably not, though. --Dan'l…
24 May 2010, 16:21
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You misunderstood what I mean by "voluntarily enforced." I do _not_ mean universal citizen policing (which is a Bad Thing). Rather, I mean a situation in which people voluntarily a…
24 May 2010, 15:17
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Discipline, voluntarily enforced, is a Good Thing.…
24 May 2010, 15:04
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Not just Venus and Mercury, but all the "divine spirits" of the traditional Planets. Au contraire: to whatever extent the idea may be at odds with Paul's, the idea that good acts …
19 May 2010, 20:54
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While I admit that I don't see the immediate relevance of this to Wolfe, it is interesting (and much more than I knew, or at least remembered). I'll leave it to others to find the …
19 May 2010, 20:23
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Only in broad terms. And we're wandering pretty far from the topic of the list.…
19 May 2010, 19:51
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I'm familiar with Tezcatlipoca as Necoc Yaotl, "The Enemy on Both Sides."…
19 May 2010, 19:24
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...Richard Nixon?…
19 May 2010, 18:42
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Isn't it directly stated that the Whorl (and thus presumably any ship of its class) was constructed by hollowing out/inflating an asteroid?…
18 May 2010, 17:22
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A, yes, Lafferty ... another fine Catholic SF writer ...…
17 May 2010, 21:39
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