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Looks like you did a better job of it than I; I've been grumpy of late. I think it's a bit soon for that. One hot book does not a hot name make; I hesitated even about Mieville. …
08 Nov 2004, 12:18
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This is, for me, probably the single thing I found most distasteful about the entire story: it is based on an actual scene in _LW&W_ in which (as I imagine you can guess) neither A…
05 Nov 2004, 15:16
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I'd vote for 1/1. I don't imagine I'll get to it before then either. Commitments and travel.…
03 Nov 2004, 21:04
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You know, this is almost the only thing I've ever heard about Luther that I liked...…
03 Nov 2004, 16:58
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I've been been slowly plodding through FLIGHTS for the past few weeks. I'm finding most of it dull: fantasy mostly doesn't work for me at short lengths, except for contemporary/da…
03 Nov 2004, 11:07
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There are approximately eight million, seven hundred thousand words on this subject in the archives...…
10 Oct 2004, 15:32
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Ummmm ... perhaps this is a literal reading of "In my Father's house there are many mansions."…
05 Oct 2004, 10:17
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H'mmm. I had never thought to connect "pelagic" with "pelagian," but there is a kind of sense to it - the Pelagian heresy is, at root, the ideal of self-sufficiency. Rejecting Augu…
04 Oct 2004, 11:20
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"We are the chorus and we agree. We agree, we agree, we agree." Gross example: The Narnia books. CS Lewis decided after the fact to recommend a reading order that begins with _The…
29 Sep 2004, 12:45
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Ummmm. Ushas isn't just a flooded Urth; new continents (or old, long-sunken ones) rise. The impression I have is that in their arising, Abaia is forced above the surface of the wa…
27 Sep 2004, 12:38
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Sikozu writes: Well, of course, one might argue that this is the point - his "good" men are stomach-churning, hellish people also. One and all - as near as I can tell - his narrat…
09 Sep 2003, 18:42
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Well, it's a little more complex than that. They are One, but not The Same. That is, they are distinct persons who share a single substance, being, and Godhead. I'm not prepared to…
08 Sep 2003, 13:33
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Don P. notes that While I did not have Campbellian hero-myth terminology in mind, this is very much the kind of thing I was thinking of. I am not totally satisfied with it, becau…
08 Sep 2003, 13:31
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That is my belief, too.…
07 Sep 2003, 03:03
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Marc, 1. Nice catch about the Blood sacrifice. It makes sense of a lot of things, including Blood's name ... names being quite as important in the Long/Short sun books as in the…
26 Aug 2003, 16:37
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H'mmm. I'll have to look for this. Harness's THE ROSE is, imio, one of the absolutely indispensible books of the stfnal heritage.…
06 Aug 2003, 15:51
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Interesting. Of the four short stories I've published in my adult life, three have female protagonists who do not use any weapons - though two of the three face fairly violent mal…
04 Aug 2003, 00:19
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A yuge correspondance later ... I finally seed this ... Well, I have to admit that _I_ can't undersee it, but have to add that Josh reasings in a key outside the strange of my he…
29 Jul 2003, 21:26
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I can understand that. My Spousal Overunit has also been known to jump down the throats of jerks who treat ESJ as a huge undifferentiated slum/barrio. I don't do that, but I also k…
28 Jul 2003, 17:43
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Alga, Thanks -- this is probably the single most helpful response of the many this (as always) generous group has provided. As it happens, I'm _not_ up on Victorian faery-lore; …
28 Jul 2003, 16:11
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I was going to say something about this and then forgot. While I would very much like to be a part of something like this, and in fact live in the right part of the world - the e…
28 Jul 2003, 15:52
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Josh G quoted me and wrote ... Well, it isn't so much a matter of parts. I think I got most of the parts. It's the whole that is escaping me. Or, rather, as I asked: What's the p…
28 Jul 2003, 00:56
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Nah. Much more likely that Wolfe hadn't invented Silk yet then. Meaning that Wolfe had something clealry in mind when he created the ghost of Malrubius, which was NOT the Narrator…
18 Jul 2003, 15:58
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I didn't see Crush's original post. By calling one "wrong," it seems to me that he implies that the other is "right." My point is that I don't see any justification for that; in …
11 Jul 2003, 17:04
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Roy, Two points: one general, one nit. The general point: In most of the (apparent?) contradictions you list, you make an interesting assumption ... you cite Sev talking about a…
10 Jul 2003, 16:04
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Mantis having written: Actually, the best example of this I've seen is -- surprisingly -- the "Bill and Ted" movies. Both movies have sequences that involve the boys succeeding b…
09 Jul 2003, 18:35
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What do you mean "just" a copy? If the original drowned and the Sev we knew is a copy ... isn't he still the important one?…
08 Jul 2003, 19:57
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Mimosa, Thanks; I've been meaning to read Luria for years. And I hadn't thought about the possibility of a hippocampus injury. Duh. But that would make the question about dreams…
23 Jun 2003, 16:13
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Marc writes: And almost immediately, in the same post, answers himself: Which is also quite sufficient answer to this question: In short: The injury to Latro's head seems to hav…
23 Jun 2003, 15:33
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While I like much of your and Mantis's) ideas here, I'm pretty sure that Nessus is more than a thousand years old and so predates Typhon and the _Whorl_. (In fact, I think it's _mu…
19 Jun 2003, 18:42
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Greetings and hallucinations, welcome to the list. Am I the only person in the world who actually likes these covers? Oh well. Well, that's for durn sure. Even LS has some proble…
13 May 2003, 16:05
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Snipping one line out of a fascinating set of notes, It seems to me that if Wolfe is going to play around with Graves's concepts and imagery _anywhere_ it would be in a story abou…
09 May 2003, 15:45
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Not, at any rate, among Zoroastrians. H'mmm. A bit more research is called for here. Okay, here's one answer, from avesta.org: From w-z-o.org: More detail from pyrecantha.com:…
08 May 2003, 21:12
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Nutria, I would suggest that this is improbable on the face of things -- tradition holds that Zarathushtra lived ca. 1750 BC; this would place us well before the time of Moses, let…
08 May 2003, 17:59
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I wrote then Josh wrote... Josh, I believe that this is a question that isn't so simply answered. I admit to oversimplifying, because most people don't know much about Zarathusht…
08 May 2003, 17:52
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Mark wrote in part... Slight correction ... Ahura-Mazda (Ormuzd, other spellings) is not a "singular" god but one-half of a dualistic pair; the other being, of course, Ahriman, …
08 May 2003, 16:16
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Gareth writes: Also good are the "...for Beginners" series from Writers and Artists. Their "Kierkegaard for Beginners" that gave me entree to a thinker whose prose I had previousl…
25 Apr 2003, 21:39
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All: I have to back off from this discussion for now. It's been taking up a huge amount of my time, and, as my work is getting into project-crunch mode, I need that time for now. …
25 Apr 2003, 16:13
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Me: Hitsuji: A fussy point: Actually, I didn't say anything about the "writer's" discursive energy. If you recall, I put some emphasis on the expectations a reader brings to a te…
25 Apr 2003, 00:03
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Hitsuji, This looks like an interesting post. Alas, the lines are truncated sufficiently to make it unreadible. I believe this is a "feature" of the list reflector. Can you repost…
24 Apr 2003, 20:19
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Side note to Craig: Yes, THE JEWEL-HINGED JAW is excellent, as is its successor, STARBOARD WINE. Chris writes: Goodness, how dare I argue after that flattery? 8*) But I seem to…
24 Apr 2003, 20:17
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Me: Gareth (I reverse the order of your paragraphs to come to my point more quickly): I suppose the word "exact" is what prompted my question. Obviously it does not mean that "ev…
24 Apr 2003, 17:45
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Blattid: Matthew: It seems to me that you are saying here that persons (characters) and events (narrative) are not part of "the real," but places (streets and caves) and inanimat…
24 Apr 2003, 17:41
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Me: Sepia: Actually, I think what it fails to correspond with is fact. Reality, truth, fact: three different concepts that need to be distinguished clearly. Something that can b…
24 Apr 2003, 17:13
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Sepia ends by writing: I think you're right, and so will cut to a few points where ... well, we don't necessarily _dis_agree but perhaps emphasize different aspects. And I have so…
23 Apr 2003, 22:12
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Sepia writes: ...taken to its (logical?) conclusion, this line of thought may lead us to conclude that _all_ texts are in some important sense fiction, that "history," "biography,…
23 Apr 2003, 19:44
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My reply to Pa.Nutria, I hope, answered Mike Sakesegawa's question, and some of ArchD'Ikon Zibethicus' also. But Zibethicus asks other questions I want to address. Usual warnings …
23 Apr 2003, 19:05
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Fair warnings as before. Pa.N. rephrases: Well, though I still wish to avoide the "real" question, I at least have some clue as to how to approach this. Further, I think I can me…
23 Apr 2003, 17:42
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Matthew inquires: Can you show me a fictive universe which maps exactly against the real? If so, how can you know it does? (Note that I am, with courage and restraint, refrainin…
23 Apr 2003, 16:29
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Thank you. Yes ... ... but ... ... _all_ fiction is set in a parallel world or alternate history. This is perhaps an intensified way of stating the case, but I believe it is fu…
23 Apr 2003, 04:06
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