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Hunh. It would not be the first time rock bands have based their work on SF classics. Aside from the umpty-million tributes. Genesis' song "Watcher of the Skies," for example, i…
26 Jan 2005, 11:59
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Jim - While I've found some of your postings, as you say, overexuberant and sometimes way out in left field, I hope you haven't felt abuse from me. I certainly intend none. A fe…
26 Jan 2005, 11:16
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Actually, it was a "litter of protest," against the kind of reading often directed at _Finnegans Wake_, in which "it's in there if you can find it, whether or not Joyce ever inten…
19 Jan 2005, 08:58
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Okay, THAT was strange...…
18 Jan 2005, 10:59
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Oh, goodness ... do we have a new genre here? "What if someone else had written Gene Wolfe's book?"…
18 Jan 2005, 10:32
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Jim, hwaet youre bespeaking meseamyth to comb doon to a claimb (on sewerants) that "The Filth Hood of Cerebus" (oh how antidivourean) is essessessentialolly a greet collideoscap…
17 Jan 2005, 15:32
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Well, I pointed out a while back that "Ormsby" can be read as "of the Dragon," i.e., Pendragon. --Dan'l…
17 Jan 2005, 09:43
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Uhhhhh.....…
17 Jan 2005, 09:41
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Right: in the end, we have the text we have and no guarantee of anything behind it. I said something of this sort long ago, but let me elaborate: I think that Wolfe has deliberat…
13 Jan 2005, 16:48
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The first of this year was the more or less agreement. To be fussy, Arthur/Able writes that. Meaning that while Wolfe actually wrote the words, he wrote them in A's narratorial v…
13 Jan 2005, 10:17
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Definitely not "no" - I completely agree with your reasoning and your conclusion.…
13 Jan 2005, 10:10
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Cool. I don't have time to play with it now, but I think this could be a great way to evolve a FAQ. --Dan'l…
12 Jan 2005, 15:22
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There is no doubt that the Narrator, right from _OBW_ on, has memories of Silk's life and occasionally slips and says things as if he were Silk rather than Horn: thus referring to …
11 Jan 2005, 15:42
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Actually, I think a Wiki for each of GW's major works, which could evolve into a FAQL, would be an excellent idea. Probably best to start out with TWK, since that's the one gettin…
11 Jan 2005, 13:01
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We must not be reading the same SF: Heinlein, Weber, Niven and/or Pournelle - well, I gave up on those two years ago... There is a long and rich tradition of conservatism in SF. …
11 Jan 2005, 12:56
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Yours. Specifically: "A man so lacking in thought and intellect he converted to Catholicism when in his 40's." While stated as a remark on Chesterton, it is in fact a general r…
11 Jan 2005, 12:55
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Aqala: I am a great admirer of both Orwell and Chesterton, and a man who is converting to Catholicism in his 40s, after a great deal (more than ten years) of thought.May I ask why…
11 Jan 2005, 10:58
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Well, this is enough to make it plausible certainly. I am not convinced - partly because of the timing problems that have already been discussed, but those can probably be overcome…
10 Jan 2005, 19:04
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Marc - If anyone, including me, said you were wrong to present the idea, they were wrong to say that. I felt and feel that the idea that "Silversilk" has moved from Pig to the N…
09 Jan 2005, 19:04
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I should like to point out that the downloading of "Silver Silk" into the Narrator remains speculative. There are several explanations (not all mutually exculsive) of how the Nar…
07 Jan 2005, 09:31
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Where, no, but I do recall it also. I think though that the point is not that America is above Kleos, but that the MHG is - so that in his "evolution" upward, Able has to complete…
06 Jan 2005, 09:30
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Stilskin, I disagree. Garvaon _had_ to hide what he had done, or it would have had far worse consequences than the ones he was hoping to avoid - if the Angrborn had known that on…
04 Jan 2005, 12:08
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There are a number of Celtic and Mediterranean bits running around, also, notably Kulilli, who's Babylonian.…
04 Jan 2005, 09:22
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Actually I read Ormsby as "Of the Worm," i.e., Pendragon.…
03 Jan 2005, 11:56
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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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Iorwerth - If I gave the impression that I had no respect for Protestant intellect, or that I don't think any Protestants have struggled to make their faith work in the light of m…
13 Dec 2004, 08:38
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Iorweth, Third-world Catholics are frequently Creationists.…
10 Dec 2004, 11:03
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Though the scientific model of the universe, including the Big Bang and evolution, is not "accepted" in the sense of being something the Catholic church teaches as doctrine, it is,…
09 Dec 2004, 14:56
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Again, just riffing on something Turin said ... It does, but only if you recognize that "genres" of this sort are not categories, that is nouns, pigeonholes, but adjectives. Thus…
09 Dec 2004, 10:06
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Chris, While this is more of a riff on what you wrote than a driect response to it, I should like to observe that a lot of the problems of identity in the solar books (and 5HC) a…
08 Dec 2004, 12:41
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Turin - I've been too busy to reply in detail to many of your excellent posts, but I want to thank you for bringing a new energy to this list. I think the various appearances of…
08 Dec 2004, 09:59
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What Apheta's speech-through-silence has always reminded me of was the prophet (was it Ezekiel? Can't recall) who listened for God's voice only to find Him speaking in a quiet br…
07 Dec 2004, 10:24
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H'mmmm. Well, it seems very unlikely to me that Gaiman would say much uncomplimentary about CSL (or JRRT) as the invited guest of the Mythopoeic Society, an organization created …
06 Dec 2004, 12:14
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James: French does indeed borrow words, at least from English, like fer example "le week-end." French academic purists rail against such things. Probably the funniest example aro…
06 Dec 2004, 11:41
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Ummm, yeah. Please read the archives on this. I've been preaching this basic idea for a couple of years now. Well, the only interesting identity crisis I can think of in Cerebus …
06 Dec 2004, 11:12
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H'mmmm ... Interesting. Another example of machines MAYBE becoming ensouled would be the Talusses (Tali?) of the Long Sun Whorl. It seems clear to me that Wolfe is suggesting …
06 Dec 2004, 10:54
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Well, and this is what I've been trying to say for a couple of years now - that one of Wolfe's fundamental "ideas" is taking non-orthodox-Christian cosmologies and embedding them …
06 Dec 2004, 10:28
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A - I think you're probably right; if I had read _The Scar_ first I might well have liked it better than _PSS_. Alas, the sheer grotesquerie which is CM's primary stock in trade …
03 Dec 2004, 08:42
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Counterargument: At first Morgoth cooperates with the Valar in the work of building up Ea, then he feigns cooperation, and finally rebels. I suggest that the decline was present fr…
03 Dec 2004, 08:32
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In something of a hurry but to reply to one part of Chris's and James's discussion - yes, only the Increate can make a soul or ensoul a being, but this does not mean that an artif…
03 Dec 2004, 08:30
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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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Well, you mentioned Le Guin, and I agree - she is not as consciously manipulating her material as it at some times seems. Yes, there is some of that, but (for example) she discover…
02 Dec 2004, 09:17
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Eric - as one of the list's token Catholics I tend to agree with you that "Christianity doesn't exist." More accurately (and I think this is pretty close to what Kierkegaard was g…
01 Dec 2004, 09:51
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Alga, Welcome back! You've been missed. It's in Al Sarrantino's new antho, "Flights." It got onto this list partly because there's a longish GW story in there. That story does c…
01 Dec 2004, 09:43
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Turin - What a fascinating discussion! I'd say that Tolkien actually wrote two novels, _tLotR_ and _The Hobbit_, though the latter is in its original intent a novel for children.…
30 Nov 2004, 14:41
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[...] Ah. Well, gender doesn't _generally_ matter in text - my parenthetical remark was a sort of grammatical joke. I'd just greeted you with a "Bravo! Bravissimo!" and if you w…
30 Nov 2004, 12:36
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Hooreay! This will finally be available in a reasonable edition!…
30 Nov 2004, 09:47
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Oh. Oh, well, so much for that theory...…
29 Nov 2004, 17:20
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That much is clearly true. In fact, there are times when he comes parlously close to Poughkeepsie, to borrow Le Guin's trope. That's a common and rather false criticism of Tolkien…
29 Nov 2004, 15:08
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Yeh, I think you're right. H'mmm. No doubt _Wolfe_ could have done so; but I can't see Gaiman doing it. I've only read four novels, a scattering of shorts, and some funnybooks, bu…
29 Nov 2004, 12:18
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