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Ummm ... I don't think it did. Silk had an experience which took place outside of Time, i.e., in Eternity, the perspective from which the Outsider (==the Christian God) views spac…
16 Dec 2002, 22:19
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I don't see any reason we can't have a "Muskrat" and a "Zibethicus."=20…
12 Dec 2002, 20:35
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Ah, bravo! Another appreciator of the great American humorists --=20 mine own nom du Viron coming indirectly from Don Marquis, I salute you, sah.…
11 Dec 2002, 20:34
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Jerry F knocks my reconciliation to the Blushas theory into a cocked hat. Mmmm. This is a difficulty, isn't it? Marc, do you have an answer for this? Cause I sure don't.…
10 Dec 2002, 21:50
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Odd. I did not receive this. Indeed it is. And while I have not seen any specifically Wolfean responses to the Nigeria scam, members of this list might be amused by this Lovecraft…
10 Dec 2002, 16:55
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And simple embarassment might also have caused Mantis to exaggerate the degree of his "ambushment." Actually, I'm more interested in his self-description as a "housewife" ... 8*)…
04 Dec 2002, 18:03
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Oops. I fergot all about that... Okay, I'll buy that. Ummm, he was only mostly-dead? (If he was completely dead, they'd have gone through his pockets for loose cardbits.) The pi…
04 Dec 2002, 17:41
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Well ... Increate stuff. ;*) Well, all "valid" baptisms ... I wouldn't care to make the argument that, say, John's baptisms (at least prior to Jesus' showing up) necessarily broug…
03 Dec 2002, 23:28
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Oh, aye. Actually, it seems fairly clear that the first showing of the Narrator & party in Nessus does take place the same day as the drowning/baptism/whatever: as someone pointed …
03 Dec 2002, 23:11
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Marc writes: I believe that this forces us to grant as a "least hypothesis" that the Narr's astral travel ability includes the ability to travel in time to a space-_and-time_ loc…
03 Dec 2002, 17:11
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Jerry Friedman wrote... No I didn't! Gawrsh ... a real physicist. That's what we need around here. Me, I can just about wade in Meissner, Thorne, & Wheeler without getting my fee…
03 Dec 2002, 01:04
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It would, but I'm not. The question then becomes whose speed is relative ... when you say that which coordinate system are you saying is "at rest?" At rest relative to what? Are y…
03 Dec 2002, 00:39
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Um, no, Mantis ... in a world that obeys Einstein's rules, "time" is equally [ob|sub]jective in any inertial reference frame; more specifically, "time" on the Whorl cruising at NA…
02 Dec 2002, 23:13
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Jerry F wrote... Agreed, so far as that goes; but the question (as I hope should be clear) was intended from (OK, I really do not understand this use of the word "deictic.") The…
02 Dec 2002, 23:03
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Hardly a fair comparison. The two couples in "The Number of the Beast--" are all the same Person. (That's not a slam; that is what RAH _intended_ ... if in doubt, go reread the p…
02 Dec 2002, 22:05
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Well ... that's still rather more than the couple of dozen LY I thought of ... it seems then that Urth's red sun probably is _not_ particualrly visible from the Bleen system.…
02 Dec 2002, 19:09
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Mantis reminds me of this .... ... I tend to think that the _Whorl_ most likely has a boost of << 1 G -- probably .01G or so. Reasoning: the Cargo know enough about the skew of gr…
02 Dec 2002, 18:28
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Roy C having written: Ahem ... While I have no idea whether Crush knows this or not, Gene Wolfe holds the same hypothesis. Once upon a time, moments before I first joined this lis…
02 Dec 2002, 17:19
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A few teensy points. Actually, this statement makes almost the same error that led to "Wolfe wouldn't have his protagonist commit incest." In fact, Mr Wolfe's religion serves a…
26 Nov 2002, 22:24
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Charles, I didn't mean to direct my Ahem at you; you are hardly the first to get involved in the orbit trap in discussing the mechanics of the Bleen system. I've seen some of our …
26 Nov 2002, 18:23
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Crush writes ... While I do not feel competent to interpret it, it seems to me that a constant theme of identity (and especially the ambiguous nature of identity) runs through mo…
22 Nov 2002, 21:21
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Crush wrote... Agreement: I understand/understood this* as based on the holographic model of memory. In this model, we postulate memories as stored not in a specific "location" b…
20 Nov 2002, 22:52
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That Subject: line sounds like a pirate trio, eh? Whoa, hee-haw, hold on there boyo! Y're making _far_ too sweeping a statement here. I believe that most of the list would conc…
19 Nov 2002, 22:53
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SMERSH, short for "Smyert shpionam" ["death to all spies"] -- the Soviet spy agency which stood in counterpart to the US's CIA, and against which James Bond fought in the original…
19 Nov 2002, 17:44
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Roy C. wrote... [...] I like this, and the variations that have been suggested on it, but I perceive one hole that needs plugging ... We repeatedly see an inhum[u|a] more-or-le…
19 Nov 2002, 17:41
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Okay, I don't have a copy of the Lex, so I don't know what it says there ... but ... "longfather" is simply an antique word for a male ancestor distant enough that you can't (or do…
19 Nov 2002, 17:22
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Actually, since first reading that scene, I've always envisioned the leatherskin as some kind of lobster ... possibly one with a slightly softer shell, possibly one that has molted…
18 Nov 2002, 20:24
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Yep. I sit corrected.…
18 Nov 2002, 19:58
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Yes, I recall that also ... but this does not automatically imply that the Old Sun has just started to die in his time. As I said, I had the impression it had been going on rather…
18 Nov 2002, 19:29
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There are more posts in Roy C. Lackey's posts than are dremt of in your philosophy: I seem to recall some discussion of this in the past ... but ... it seems to me that the commo…
18 Nov 2002, 18:07
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Scribble, scribble, scribble ... another great thick post, eh Mr. Lackey? This puzzles me. I have wondered for some time just why many of the participants on this list assume that…
18 Nov 2002, 18:02
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Don Dogget, agent of SMERSH, emerged from an alley and dropped the microfilm. When deciphered, it read: [...] Actually, I think this slightly reverses the usual understanding of …
18 Nov 2002, 17:59
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If I expressed myself in a cruel manner, I apologize. I did not intend it. I may seek truth and clarity, but not penance (except in myself). Gaaah. No. It seems rather thirsty, b…
15 Nov 2002, 16:20
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Dan Rabin responds to moi: By Jove, you're right. Sloppy, Dan'l, sloppy.…
13 Nov 2002, 16:57
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Dan (Doggett): You wrote, I do not feel certain what, precisely, you consider my "primary contention," but as you do not (to me) appear to address (what I consider) my "primary…
13 Nov 2002, 16:55
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Marc writes: Well, with the exception of the parenthetical "with the help of the trees," that seems very likely at this point.…
12 Nov 2002, 19:57
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Don: First, let me second Roy C's words of welcome and express pleasure in reading your interesting and articulate first posts. OK; here's my primary point of contention. I do n…
12 Nov 2002, 18:11
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Well, yeah ... and I think we can also take it that Mr Wolfe's reasons for Pas being two-headed might be quite different from Typhon's reasons for making Pas two-headed ... that …
08 Nov 2002, 22:32
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There is nothing in the books which seems to me to suggest that the appearance of the Gods of Mainframe is necessarily based upon the appearance of the bodies in which they resode…
08 Nov 2002, 18:14
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If he had, you'd think there would have been just the one religion, instead of the "Vironese Faith," the Islam-like faith of the -- oh, darn, I'm blanking on the city's name -- t…
08 Nov 2002, 00:55
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Actually, a close reading of the Hebrew scriptures shows that from end to end, Law, Prophets, and Writings ("TaNaK") promise blessings for "doing the right thing," from caring for …
04 Nov 2002, 18:35
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Nutria, It's good to hear your comments, and to the very large extent that we seem to be in agreement I take this as a point in favor of what I've been saying -- not merely becau…
04 Nov 2002, 18:22
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Roy quoted Mantis ... ... and wrote ... Pedantically I riposte: Time travel of the variety Mantis describes occurs in at least one mainstream novel, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, which…
30 Oct 2002, 17:17
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Two points in support of the estimable Ansley's prescribed prounciation: a) "Wabe" needs to rhyme with "outgrabe," whose origin (if it can be called that - past tense of "to outg…
30 Oct 2002, 17:14
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Adam and Tom exchanging ... For clarity: The "Gnostic model" of the Long Sun books is this: In Wolfe's "major" works, he presents settings in an orthodox Catholic universe in wh…
29 Oct 2002, 17:36
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If this is getting too far off topic, someone please yell at me. I think it retains relevance as a discussion of what, as a Catholic, Wolfe's views of certain issues might be. To…
28 Oct 2002, 21:33
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This one is one of the best (and most attractive) presentations of gnostic ideas that I -- speaking, of course, from a non-gnostic and pretty much ignorant point of view -- have…
28 Oct 2002, 19:11
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Josh Geller writes: My apologies; since so many people (including some on this list) speak of Christianity as if all Christians thought and believed alike, I should know better. I…
28 Oct 2002, 17:47
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A few fussy points for philosophical clarity. Actually, one common meaning, and _the_ basic philosophical meaning, of "pessimism" is very much in line with Gnostic doctrine; see…
28 Oct 2002, 17:19
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Even better, I think, would be the various collection of his late letters and notebooks which have been published. Probably the most relevant among the rather overwhelming Dickiana…
28 Oct 2002, 17:09
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