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Only that it's yet another example of Mr Wolfe's occasionally annoying, clever-boots technique of narrating all around an event, dropping bits of it here and there, but never actua…
26 Feb 2001, 08:13
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On further thought, so do I. There is no real indicator that (Pas)Silk downloads into Silkhorn at any time. My reasoning was that (1) Silk's spirit was dying, (2) Horn takes over, …
22 Feb 2001, 08:41
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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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No, it couldn't be, because of something Kevin Maroney said two weeks or so back: ...but possibly a being of the same sort... *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book…
14 Dec 2000, 14:13
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The quoted message chain ends with Paul: This is what I get for attempting irony on an email list. Damn it, do we have to put little emoticons after ***everything*** ... *This …
12 Dec 2000, 09:50
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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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Easy. Incompetence. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
11 Dec 2000, 08:39
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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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While I agree with you in the general case, about SF's "image problem," I have to ask... Am I the _only_ person here who likes the covers on OBW and IGJ? I find this frankly hard …
05 Dec 2000, 08:50
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A Monday morning meditation inspired by Adam's post and the various replies thereunto. I may ramble. I'm inclined to agree with & even to insist upon the following basic points: …
04 Dec 2000, 10:15
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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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Alga emerged from her pond and asked: One of the Blattidaea, of course. Or, as my dear old grammaw would say, "One of dem cock-a-roaches." Blatt! Blatt! *This is WHORL, for dis…
28 Nov 2000, 07:58
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You mean like the cheesy authors of stories like "The Last Thrilling Wonder Story" and "The Fifth Head of Cerebus?" Yeah, you're probably right... *This is WHORL, for discussion …
27 Nov 2000, 08:33
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I hate to say it, but my first reaction is that the giant's face looks more than a bit like Wolfe's. I hope this doesn't turn into some metafictional crud. (Dammit, Dan'l, have fa…
22 Nov 2000, 11:45
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Rostrum a ecrit: IGJ contradicts your theory 8*) Here I want to disagree strenuously. By the end of _Shadow_, Severian has told us at least twice that he is become Autarch; dr…
21 Nov 2000, 12:37
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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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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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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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H'mmmm. I'll have to look at this again. I'm probably just plain wrong here. But see below: My point (all together now: "And I do have a point") was, simply, that those suits …
15 Jun 1998, 14:56
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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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