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I finished "It" this morning and ... h'mmm. I'm not sure exactly what I think. I mean, I really _really_ like these books*, but I can't exactly say why. I think, though I'm not su…
03 Jan 2005, 11:30
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China M. has an article in the Guardian (http://tinyurl.com/6s587) from which I pull the following quotes as possibly interesting and/or relevant to the recent-ongoing discussion…
02 Dec 2004, 09:38
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Don D writes: While I agree, cryptoaugustinially, with your characterization of the third Person as "Love," in that characterization the first two Persons are generally referred t…
09 Sep 2003, 18:00
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Okay, so ... Severian is the New Sun. So is the Conciliator. And they turn out to be, in some sense, the same person. Silk is the Long Sun. So is Pas. And they turn out to be, i…
05 Sep 2003, 16:02
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One of those "Duh" moments. Okay, Severian is the New Sun. Is Silk the Long Sun? Is the Narrator the Short Sun? If so, how, and what does this mean?…
05 Sep 2003, 00:49
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Though you might not think it to look at my list output, I've been in a terrible writer's block for over a year, which broke recently and all sorts of stuff has been pouring out …
06 Aug 2003, 16:31
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I believe that most writers who write about writing -- I mean people who are actually _good_ at writing fiction and choose to write about the process -- agree that first person PoV…
01 Aug 2003, 17:41
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Josh, I'm not sure what, in the above-quoted passage, gave you to think that I was putting down either yourself or East San Jose, but whatever it was, I apologize, in front of the…
28 Jul 2003, 16:50
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Okay. So, after years of seeing people on this list rave about John Crowley, I've read _Little, Big_ over the last few weeks. And I just. Don't. Get it. I don't mean the story…
27 Jul 2003, 16:38
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention: Gene Wolfe has left the building. Wolfe has left the Odyssey workshop prematurely; his explanation is on the Locus Website. htt…
25 Jul 2003, 18:58
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Fair warning: This is going to be boring to about 50% of listmembers; contains a lot of stuff that some of you have seen before, either from me or from outside reading; and I don't…
22 Apr 2003, 19:26
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Clarification: I refer to the books, not the man. The Cornelius books, the S'n'S megaseries, the Pyat books, the Dancers ... all Moorcock's work seems to me to breathe the thick at…
18 Apr 2003, 16:19
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'70s? With a career that extends from the mid-'60s to (thus far) 2003, calling Fairport Convention '70s _anything_ seems a bit ... well, inaccurate anyway. They definitely begin wi…
18 Apr 2003, 15:46
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Forgive me if this has already been done, but ... I recall a while back there was an argument that the Jungle Garden scene was connected somehow to the South America of roughly-ou…
15 Apr 2003, 16:35
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First, I want to chime in agreement for the Ted Chiang collection. Reading it was like having my head blown off several times with small weapons fire. Astonishing writing about cra…
14 Apr 2003, 17:09
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Just testing to see if I can post now. If so, thanks, Ranjit!…
10 Apr 2003, 19:20
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Unfortunately for those of us who like cyclic universe theories, it appears that "The universe will expand=20 forever. It will not turn back on itself and collapse=20 in a great cr…
14 Feb 2003, 17:26
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There's a new (posted yesterday) Wolfe story, "Castaway,"=20 on scifi.com: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/wolfe2/ No spoilers, but I think it's one o…
06 Feb 2003, 23:36
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The one thing we all seem to agree upon is that the weird scene at the end of OBW is a major turning point, and key to any full interpretation of _SS_. I've never been quite able …
23 Jan 2003, 16:38
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Just digging out from under almost two weeks' worth of emails, and=20 fascinated by all that's gone on on this list ... it occurred to me that the Blushas debate has been going on …
01 Jan 2003, 00:17
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Ummm. If (as Marc more-than-hints) the evidence for what Wolfe has, mysterioso, revealed to him urks in the neighborhood of sentient trees in tBotNS ... ... then I can't help won…
19 Dec 2002, 16:57
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(This is a somewhat artificial post ... I've self-edited but left in some weird stuff to indicate how my thought processes went.) Among other things, Marc points out Okay ... Th…
04 Dec 2002, 16:15
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And several people responded, beginning with Jeff Veyera: That explains _where_, but not _when_ -- if Scylla-in-Oreb "guided" the Narrator and company back to Urth then, just li…
02 Dec 2002, 17:08
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Okay, let's take this one step at a time. Suppose that Blue is Urth/Ushas and Green is Lune. Okay, let's suppose that. That means we have to allow astral time travel. Then we ha…
26 Nov 2002, 17:24
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Ahem. It seems to me that we can explain the difference in climate between Green and Blue, without resorting to a radical difference in their respective orbits ... for example, …
26 Nov 2002, 17:17
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Roy quoting me: Per se I do not think it would represent a problem (though I suspect that if it was the wooden leg that was woefully wounded the Claw would either fail or make it …
18 Nov 2002, 20:29
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Okay, I assume everyone is agreed that Typhon, in SWORD, is a Satan image in much the same way & extent that Severian is a Christ(ian) image, right? I mean, he goes through the who…
07 Nov 2002, 20:56
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You know, the whole business about "why Napoleon kept his hand in his vest," according to _any_ biography, is a huge red herring ... he did not (as far as I can tell) habitually go…
15 Oct 2002, 20:09
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For those who haven't checked out Crush's Long Sun page (http://www.visualclick.com/~jwynn/GeneWolfe/LongSun/), I think it ought to be required reading for Long Sun discussion. I …
27 Aug 2002, 22:35
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Or (given the partial content of the interview you pointed out -- thank you!) something very clever on the part of Wolfe's unconscious or subconscious or whatever it is that does…
27 Aug 2002, 19:02
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Good heavens ... Stone Ox has brought up a marvellous correspondence, and then missed something that ... well, I guess it isn't obvious because I never saw it before either, but …
26 Aug 2002, 16:27
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O, what a can of worms is opened here! If Charlie Turner is a unicorn, and if there never was a coldhouse prank, then maybe Sherry Gold's a phantom too, a middle-aged man's onanist…
20 Aug 2002, 21:12
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A couple of clarifications: First, yes, it was I. Second, I do not mean (nor did I mean to imply) that Ascian Correct Thought is _exclusively_ a parable of the Maoist Cult of Per…
29 Jul 2002, 15:47
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Alga wrote of the I do, I do! But not with the last statement; I think frankly, that, with one exception, and the semi-exception of the Ascians, your premise -- that Wolfe's in…
16 Jul 2002, 18:53
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1. Silk's relationship with Hyacinth. This simply cannot be understood outside of the context of the (very short) book of the prophet Hosea in the Bible. To summarize thematically…
15 Jul 2002, 18:53
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Stephen Case: you have presented the best & most coherent argument for the "Silk commits suicide theory" I have ever encountered -- others may have expressed it before, but if th…
11 Jul 2002, 16:17
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God does promise Noah that He will not again destroy all the world by water. The coming of the White Fountain does not violate this promise, because all the world is _not_ destro…
17 Jun 2002, 16:03
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Well, no, not really, but another approach to what's going on here. Moving slowly through OBW, I found this: Throughout my life I have done my best to imitate Silk (as I am d…
13 Jun 2002, 15:23
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Crush again... [Lupinity deleted] Well, yes and no ... among other things, this depends on just what Christian theology you're talking about. Catholic theology has, to the best …
12 Jun 2002, 16:34
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Crush declaimed: Well, here you fall afair of the common Catholic theological concept of the "anonymous Christian" -- the person who, for whatever reason, is not given the grace t…
12 Jun 2002, 16:27
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Emerging from the murky mists of the Internet, composing on computers their provident remarks, James and Jeff have jointly written: I should clarify my point here ... it i…
11 Jun 2002, 16:01
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Matthew asks: and Hartshorn replies: Ummm ... well, maybe a little, but the speech patterns of the Ascians are _not_ derived from Newspeak. They are a clear and luminous referen…
11 Jun 2002, 15:31
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Andrew writes again... Well, I'd say "it's pretty clear that the Outsider is the God of Christianity." The entire theology of the Trinity seems to be untouched by the texts (thoug…
10 Jun 2002, 19:05
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A reading from EXODUS: After a monent of silence, [Mint] added, "You've lost your faith, or most of it, I think. What's happened to us?" Potto laughed loudly. Quetz…
28 May 2002, 19:53
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Apologies for the OT thread I am doubtless about to start. Hoom. Obviously, those are cases of taking chapters from a novel and printing them separately as short stories. If THE D…
20 May 2002, 16:34
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Mark (Nacre) Millman wrote... Ursula K. Le Guin has (apparently) recently come up with a useful term for books like _5HC_ and, another particularly useful example, Kim Stanley Rob…
10 May 2002, 16:53
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In among all the serious discussion, I'd like to toss out something fun. Now and again in reading (and more often in rereading) texts Lupine, I find the literary equivalent of an…
06 May 2002, 15:56
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Okay, I'm dumb and I admit it; I hadn't remembered that the Shadow Children actually _call_ themselves humans. Now I do. But are they really? And if they are, _who_ are they? You'…
19 Apr 2002, 23:26
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I'm not sure what this means, but it appears that Number Five does something no previous Gene Wolfe has done. In the conversation in which he discoveres the nature of Mr. Million, …
19 Apr 2002, 22:50
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I made a numerological reflection relevant to 5HC: Well, yeah. The Arabic numeral system simply wasn't around when John had his vision. Still, I misdoubt whether the standard tra…
19 Apr 2002, 22:16
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