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And these are pearls that were his eyes... I incline to the view that the house is his skull, also, but there is somehow too much physicality to Weer's "after"life for me to accept…
25 Oct 2000, 16:42
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Regarding the future of these lists -- as a recent returnee after 2+ years, I don't know that I have a right to an opinion, but if I do, I vote for a unified list. ("Ushas" is a g…
20 Oct 2000, 09:39
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The Subject: line refers to the fact that I love PEACE, think it is in places a very funny book, and would very much like to understand it. 8*) Mantis, Doug Eigsti and I have be…
19 Oct 2000, 12:01
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To Whom It May Concern. Dear Whom, Thanks for your e-mail. I really do appreciate your sending it and care a lot about what you had to say. Please excuse this robo-reply, but u…
18 Jun 1998, 02:18
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Adam (who seems to write at my level, as opposed to some of you ...specifically, his habit of leaving out some critical detail at the time of narration and mentioning it only late…
17 Jun 1998, 14:41
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Adam observes: More like the latter. Paunchy folks in business suits _are_ the villains in the version of reality in which Mauss lives and works, so when these villain-archetypes…
16 Jun 1998, 11:42
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It seems to me that "Three Fingers" -- oddly for a Wolfe story -- is just what it seems. That is, Adam's theory #2 comes closest to the mark: Hokay, let's take this one point at …
15 Jun 1998, 09:07
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Hi -- One possible reason for Wolfe's holding to (some version of) Lamarckian evolution is (the Catholic version of) Christian theology. It is absolutely central to (Catholic) Ch…
08 Jun 1998, 09:19
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_Trencheior_ or _trenchier_, actually; a medieval French verb now obsolete in either form. (May come from trinicare, a later Vulgar Latin verb meaning 'to cut or divide in three…
22 May 1998, 08:51
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Kevin Maroney whrote... Strictly speaking, I believe you're right. But then, you wouldn't expect Wolfe to come out and say YHWH, now, would you... (We _are_ given a pretty fair …
19 May 1998, 09:38
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Hi -- Just been rereading PEACE. Fascinated by the structure (a story of a man haunted by stories telling stories about storytellers tellign stories of haunts). Nothing much ne…
17 May 1998, 15:48
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Rostrum Rote: -- in fact, in the language of the Long Sun, the word "whorl" has replaced the word "world" entirely; they talk about Urth as the "Short Sun Whorl", ask questions li…
15 May 1998, 09:16
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William, you're right. I brainfarted the dates of Leeuwenhoek - somehow got them confused with Pasteur's... As for casting. Okay, if we're walking the corridors of time... Seve…
14 May 1998, 14:31
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Mantis a ecrit: Whoa there, big fella. This is based on a whole series of speculations. But still: it creates some interesting thoughts re: the claim that Severian will turn up…
14 May 1998, 09:20
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While we can count the various resurrected Severians (Severiim? Severiani?) as different, they're all part of the same "release" -- I'd call them Sev2.1, Sev2.2, etc., as opposed t…
12 May 1998, 14:58
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William: the smallpox bit won't wash, not in a quilt from American Revolution times. While the idea of leprosy coming through infected items might have occurred to some colonis…
12 May 1998, 14:52
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There is no question about this. (Wolfe has never hidden that one of his inspirations for this work was Jack Vance's "The Dying Earth.") Some members of this list are interested …
11 May 1998, 11:07
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Further than what? 8*) You might check out the recent discussion of a "syllabus" for an introductory BotNS class. There's been a lot of good stuff mentioned there (and some …
07 May 1998, 07:46
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I was at first surprised at all the stuff about who "the first Severian" was. The Severian who writes tBotNS -- the one who tells us "I know that I am not the first Severian" -…
04 May 1998, 07:01
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This will wander, but I promise it will have some realio trulio Wolfe content before we're done. While I'm not 100% certain whether the Roman Catholic Church ("RCC") has a strong…
20 Apr 1998, 15:14
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Hi, Not quite a lurker; I signed up recently and have been frantically trying to catch up with the digests. I'm nearly there, now, and have a few things I'd like to toss out. S…
03 Apr 1998, 12:20
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