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I presume it was a reference to the ram's horn or _shofar_ blown in the Temple on the High Holy Days (Yom Kippur?). It is generally agreed (among those who believe in the Fall to …
23 May 2001, 11:43
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Don't like it, but have to agree. (Side note -- Lilith is often identified with the Greek snake-women, lamiae, which adds flavor to this.) Right. Realistically, _none_ of this ma…
17 May 2001, 15:54
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Roy wrote that the NP Ummmm... that _was_ his inauguration. There was no big hoo-hah with both houses of Congress looking on reverentially, and no inaugural ball (which would have…
11 May 2001, 14:11
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... what to read till the next Gene Wolfe book comes? (And by the way, does anyone -- Wombat, this question has your name written all over it -- know what he's working on now? "T…
11 May 2001, 09:47
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Well, he's been through some kind of inauguration, but I can't find any statement of his being elected. OTOH, there's no direct hint that he wasn't. He's worried about some futur…
09 May 2001, 15:22
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Nah. I'll nit-pick over semantics at the drop of a hat. Fair enough -- though on the "trustworth scale" I was setting up, I think it would be more-or-less equivalent to #4, scene…
03 May 2001, 09:06
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I disagree; it is not a reasonable hypothesis, and I make no such assumption. Bhere's a pretty simple hermeneutic principle here: I do assume by default, unless there is some sp…
02 May 2001, 08:27
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"John-Paul Wellcoat" wrote (in response to me): Generally, I'd like to see an author portray a _character_, and not a scenery-chewing melodram villain. I need to believe that a vi…
01 May 2001, 09:32
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And Alga responded: As well as (say) PKD does in the VALIS triplet? (Of course, PKD's gnosticism is as quirky as anything else PKD wrote...) Millions? Billions. Sagans. Okay, …
30 Apr 2001, 08:42
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Au contraire: I am in fact too sophisticated _not_ to be offended by religious bigotry, whether it favors or disfavors mine own belief-system. I find, e.g., books like "This Prese…
27 Apr 2001, 09:10
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Good catch, good call. I'm afraid I also have to abandon my own theorizing about a grand communion of humans and human-inhumi, in favor of what you say; in which case the "grand …
26 Apr 2001, 13:35
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Which was pretty much my point. Assuming per argumentam the "Golden Rule" theory of the Secret, _and_ that the human colonists somehow manage to implement it, then the inhumi beco…
25 Apr 2001, 12:58
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...which caused me to note something that hadn't occurred to me before: The Narr is capable of astral travelling only after he's had his whole-body transplant. The dumb explanation…
20 Apr 2001, 10:40
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Igor -- iht's aloiv! Iht's aloiv! *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
13 Apr 2001, 11:44
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Viz writes, viz: Some thoughts on this... 1. Mr Wolfe has been (dis?)informed over and again by reviewers both friendly and un that his texts are just too difficult for an sf a…
11 Apr 2001, 08:27
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Michael, no, your theory, attractive though it is (I love the idea of embarassing vampires to death...), simply doesn't fit with many of the Narr's statements about the nature of …
09 Apr 2001, 09:20
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Ummmm. A great big "huh?" just hit me. The inhumi can imitate us. The inhumi can imitate Neighbors. How many limbs have the inhumi? And how can they imitate both us and the Neig…
27 Mar 2001, 10:39
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I think the [correct/best/proper] explanation of (eg) Rose's [memories/personality/consciousness/soul] [infiltrating into/integrating with] [that/those] of pMarble/Molybdenum] m…
20 Mar 2001, 15:15
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Ummmm. Consider this: the oceanbound giants of Blue, Urth, and indeed all w[h]orl[d]s are in fact one spacegoing, perhaps even spacedwelling by nature, race. This is, I believe, …
15 Mar 2001, 08:32
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... so you're the guys who came over and burned a question mark on my lawn last fall? Perhaps that was precisely the purpose? Not suggesting that Wolfe is writing for/at this li…
12 Mar 2001, 08:41
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I don't immediately have a problem with the kids deliberately writing their sections of the "Book of Horn" in a way that features prominent elisions and elusions. The problem aris…
06 Mar 2001, 09:20
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Yodese Dorpish dialect is not. Never have any of you Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, visited? The Dorpish in the dialect of the (older) Pennsylvania Dutch speak. With, perhaps, a …
22 Feb 2001, 08:32
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A lot of people (notably Robert Borski) suggest that Tartaros is in possession of Pig, while Michael Andre-Driussi, in discussing the possibility of Sev. as one of Pas's sprats, s…
21 Feb 2001, 17:45
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do not indicate a suicide attempt or, I fear, even a fight (with Pig or anyone else). Check out Orpine's funeral in, I believe, LAKE; the mutes hired for the occasion cut their ar…
21 Feb 2001, 15:23
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After reading about a third of the outstanding messages, I see that most people seem to assume that there is some kind of fundamental change in Silkhorn after Remora's message. I d…
21 Feb 2001, 14:08
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Good lord! I can't believe I forgot to bring the alzabo (both animal and analeptic) into that discussion! Good on ya, SpecBear, *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Bo…
21 Feb 2001, 13:33
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0. Okay, I've just finished RttW & have 200+ messages sitting here waiting for me to read them (which will probably take me damnear as long as reading the book did). But some fi…
21 Feb 2001, 13:23
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How embarassing -- a month ago (in digest 30.55, on the 11 Jan) I pointed out that TMWKTM was a probable inspiration/source for "Suzanne Delage." And somehow it didn't occur to m…
12 Feb 2001, 08:17
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Responding to Talarican's list of twinnings, Tom Urash observed: ... nor that little Severian is himself half of a dyad with Severa, making the Big/Little Severian dyad somehow f…
07 Feb 2001, 15:04
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SpecBear wrote: ) I think this is what our deconstructionist friends would call the hinge. Tug on this in just the right way and the whole novel falls apart/falls into place. A…
15 Jan 2001, 09:07
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Okay, the Proustian influence on SD is well-established; now to bring in another of Wolfe's well-known favorites. I chanced across this today: A thing can sometimes be too extra…
10 Jan 2001, 14:37
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Actually, "triskele" is a standard (if uncommon) English word, which Webster defines as "a figure composed of three usually curved or bent branches radiating from a center." Possi…
10 Jan 2001, 10:06
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The short answer is "no." Unfortunately, you left out my very important caveat. I suspect that if we could decide clearly who was and who was not Fay, the rest would fall into …
05 Jan 2001, 12:47
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Okay... Having now reread CASTLEVIEW under somewhat better circumstances (i.e., at home, not lacking massive quantities of sleep, etc.), I'm still puzzled by the puzzlement. In so…
04 Jan 2001, 10:55
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[...] Actually, Mantis' list of Shadow-child characteristics immediately makes me think of the Fair Folk. Given Wolfe's penchant for reimagining fantasy, and especially faerie-ta…
15 Dec 2000, 08:43
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This seemed fairly clear to me. "Ahead of you": They died first.…
11 Dec 2000, 08:53
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Mass responses to the digest; I'm on deadlines & don't have time for close argument. David aka viscacha: If you're going to make Monty Python references around here, oughtn't the…
08 Dec 2000, 12:41
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Thank you Rev Corbin. Mind you, I actually _like_ Weber (though not the covers), at least the HH books. (True confessions, anyone?) That being the case, I agree; these are excell…
08 Dec 2000, 10:24
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What he said. No; I'm more interested in the contrast between "telling a story" and "making points by playing with the readers' heads." Wolfe does in fact play with readers' heads…
06 Dec 2000, 13:42
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Adam, thanks for replying. Well, that's an interesting question -- one that I hadn't really considered because I think that Wolfe is, in a way, a very conservative writer. He uses…
05 Dec 2000, 12:35
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The following is long, rambling, off-the-cuff and probably off-topic. I beg your indulgence. Mantis pushed a few of my buttons when he wrote... JBC is a fascinating case: notorio…
29 Nov 2000, 09:17
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M. Borski a ecrit: Mildly intoned: It does indeed argue for a document trail upon which the Annese authorities could easily check. However, "John V. Marsch" is a prisoner of the …
12 Nov 2000, 20:36
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I wrote... And Robert replied... I think you misunderstood the question -- I was not suggesting that there is no Earth-born anthropologist; I was wondering if this was yet anot…
10 Nov 2000, 14:37
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Hi, Roy observed that: While I agree with this as stated I don't think it means as much as Roy suggests: to whom would Julius leave the company? Olivia was already dead, it seem…
09 Nov 2000, 13:23
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While I generally agree that Wolfe shares a certain evasiveness with his brother Coyote, I will grumblingly point out that in the THRUST and James's interviews are consistent at le…
07 Nov 2000, 08:57
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Fellow Lupines, Celebrate sanely this weekend. Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason, and plot. Happy(?) Guy Fawkes' Day. --Dan'l…
03 Nov 2000, 09:00
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And Mantis replied: Just a weird thought... We know that one of Wolfe's favorite films (used heavily in at least two other stories) is THE WIZARD OF OZ; and one of the "devices" …
02 Nov 2000, 09:38
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What he said. And taking it a step further, incorporating something of Mantis' and a quick hack at something of my own. The generic "topic" is my contribution -- each of the majo…
01 Nov 2000, 09:18
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Well, yeah, I was trying to make that point but did it far less clearly than this. As nearly as I can read it, Sherry Gold really _is_ in the "next room" of Dr V's office, etc. Be…
30 Oct 2000, 09:22
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More and more I think that a lot of the problems of PEACE may be resolved by abandoning chronology entirely at a certain level: specifically, by presuming (as I suggested briefly …
27 Oct 2000, 08:54
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