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But the old Autarch tells us that they seek to enslave mankind. Not just those in boats, one assumes. I'm inclined to think of Vodalus as a total patsy. His dialogue is filled…
18 May 1998, 09:09
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Agreed, though maybe Mia Farrow would work too. Nah, how about Arnold as Piaton and the head of Yul Brynner for Typhon? The Marilyn fit is awfully good, and given that you've all…
13 May 1998, 07:39
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That should be SWORD OF THE LICTOR, Ch. 18. So sorry. D…
12 May 1998, 08:52
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Yes, I've been a "smart rats" man for a while now. How many of you read the book MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH by Robert O'Brien as a youth? I did and it blew my mind. One of…
12 May 1998, 07:55
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I like your explanation. Especially because it has the ironic component that if, following Borges, we assume that people with perfect memories aren't very good at abstraction (Fun…
07 May 1998, 08:51
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Speaking of Don Maitz and the covers, isn't there also a series of covers for the British versions that are by someone else? I saw them once at an SF convention, and the only one …
05 May 1998, 15:07
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I never said that Palaemon *was* Severian0 but rather that Palaemon could be thought of as a predecessor to Severian, someone who trod a similar path, but didn't quite make it as f…
05 May 1998, 12:07
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Here's a question or two in relation to some other less well-defined "other Severians". I apologize for going a little afield from strictly "technical" definitions and I've been a…
04 May 1998, 09:49
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Just for the record, Borges didn't just work "at some library in Argentina" as one writer suggested. He worked at a city library from 1937 to 1946, when the Peron regime made him …
28 Apr 1998, 17:18
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Maybe I tried to read DYING EARTH at the wrong time in my life, but it never totally grabbed me, though I can easily see its impact on Wolfe. Has Wolfe ever mentioned Brian Aldiss'…
22 Apr 1998, 12:44
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I can't recall offhand which stuff is in which anthology, but I started off with FICCIONES and that alone contains a number of works that I think are pretty essential to understand…
21 Apr 1998, 13:06
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One of the more disturbing parts of the book actually. Severian suggests that Gurloes rather enjoys the prospect of rape and even remarks that he could manage it without the powde…
27 Mar 1998, 10:57
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I thought that it was fairly clear that the reason that Severian retains Thecla's consciousness is that he has a perfect memory, and thus the fleeting experience of Thecla that the…
25 Mar 1998, 15:48
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From: tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk (Tony Ellis) That was my initial strong impression as well. The robot parents argument doesn't seem outrageous either. Wolfean robots seem to co…
24 Mar 1998, 10:26
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Hmmm, just for fun I did an Altavista search on "Hethor" and came up with the following, from a page that gives a "Kabalarian" analysis of the name. "Severian" is not in there, bu…
18 Mar 1998, 10:51
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Isn't it the prisoners who make this claim? And isn't it also mentioned that some of the previous generation also claimed to be seventh generation descendants of the original pris…
13 Mar 1998, 10:35
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Yes, but I think Wolfe will allow for (perhaps inisit on!) multiple interpretations, and the one that came to mind immediately for me was this: Ozymandius P.B. Shelley 1818 I met…
10 Mar 1998, 11:07
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Hello My name is Dan Parmenter and I have just joined the URTH list. I was never on the WHORL list, mostly because I haven't read EXODUS yet and I wanted to keep my mind free of …
03 Mar 1998, 15:51
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