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I must disagree. Split infinitives are something up with which I will not put. Dan PS: :-)…
30 Jul 2009, 23:05
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It's bad form to use the phrase incorrectly, regardless of whether or not it's in relation to a fallacy. I disagree that the two forms convey the same meaning. You stated that "…
23 Jul 2009, 22:50
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Then say "...begs one to ask the question.." or "...begs that the question be asked..." If you find those a bit cumbersome, "raises the question" is just as clear and succinct …
23 Jul 2009, 01:37
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Not everyone, no. I don't believe government is a privileged entity. An act that is immoral for a citizen to perform doesn't become OK just because someone with a government ti…
20 May 2009, 11:49
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No, we don't need an exhaustive list. We need simple principles to define the terms. In short, you're free to do anything you like so long as you do no harm to me and mine. ("…
20 May 2009, 11:39
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You seem to be implying that the current government is one which rules "with the consent of the governed." I was pointing out that it was, in fact, no such thing. Trust me, I'v…
20 May 2009, 11:32
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Google "US Civil War" and then come back and talk to me about "consent of the governed."…
20 May 2009, 01:03
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Taxation goes from "legitimate" to "robbery" when it's taken for an illegitimate purpose. Government has one legitimate function - to protect the rights of the individual. Ever…
20 May 2009, 00:52
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I've managed to stay alive for over forty years, served twenty years and then retired from the armed forces, traveled to over thirty foreign countries, raised three kids, am help…
20 May 2009, 00:33
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Do you think that because it's done under the blessing of governmental authority it's any less a taking by force than were it the act of a highwayman? And the assertion that "it…
18 May 2009, 22:05
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I assumed that they're aliens, although I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea. After all, they're "human beings not much different from ourselves." The name Ariel (without …
05 Mar 2009, 01:42
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The history of the Inquisition suggests that it's certainly plausible the Guild could have descended form _any_ existent monastic order. Current benevolence and altruism of any …
11 Feb 2009, 23:25
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Do you have dates on the Dark Age?…
22 Jan 2008, 12:31
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I think the best thing to do for cases like this would be for the admin to lock the pages and disallow editing, and to put an introduction at the top with attribution to Borski a…
14 Jul 2007, 14:20
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... Interesting. I think the Soldier series are some of the easiest to read. In part, that's because I agree with point 4 - they also seem the shallowest of Wolfe's books. So…
27 Jun 2007, 21:53
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The one that popped out at me is whether the narrator is robot or human. Has he, perhaps, managed to infect Roberta with his own disgust at his own nature? "...Either the Robi…
26 Jun 2007, 23:29
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I suspect he's probably more right than he does. Neanderthals probably DID disappear for a reason similar to that of the mammoths. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/0…
22 Jun 2007, 11:32
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I'm not sure if you're trolling or really believe what you've posted above, but what you wrote matches little or nothing that I've read on the subject. They're more like carica…
22 Jun 2007, 11:28
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As near as I can tell, this is a project in search of a leader. If someone takes the initiative to get things configured and going, then there are a number of interested people …
20 Jun 2007, 15:52
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How big would an asteroid have to be to maintain an atmosphere? Could one of sufficient size be circumnavigated in two weeks at "rather sedate speeds?" (It's possible that Wolf…
18 Jun 2007, 00:49
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Suppose an asteroid were in orbit around the earth? Would a stone-age level inhabitant consider the Earth and Luna as two moons? I'm not certain that it makes sense to say that…
17 Jun 2007, 19:34
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That's another angle I'd never considered. Is Nashwonk not a giant but merely an ordinary sized man, and the other characters in the story still roughly the same size as their a…
17 Jun 2007, 01:01
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If it does, we need to change the name of the list form urth.net to moron.net. Anyone who claims that he knows everything that is (and is not) happening in a Wolfe story and isn…
15 Jun 2007, 22:15
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I think there's probably a bit of truth to that in that we (his readers) sometimes over-interpret his works. I don't think it's humanly possible to put the thought and emphasis …
15 Jun 2007, 11:19
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I can't speak for anyone else, but TBotNS is what hooked me on Wolfe. Had I read anything else, I'd probably have enjoyed it but it certainly wouldn't have inspired me to go gra…
14 Jun 2007, 23:59
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Ouch! A condorman, perhaps? That's a twist I'd never considered.…
14 Jun 2007, 21:57
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I've never read either CotW or WF. London has long been on my list of authors to Get Around To Someday. This thread inspired me order a collected works which includes both stor…
13 Jun 2007, 23:18
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I've made the same point a couple of times in the past. A big part of interpreting Wolfe is knowing when to stop. I'm neither feminist nor misogynist (I respond to and judge peo…
07 Jun 2007, 22:16
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The elm standing by the gates of Hell (or the underworld) ties in quite well with Borski's "Weer as the Devil" musings. If you haven't already read it, the essay is definitely w…
06 Jun 2007, 21:49
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Don't forget memory! (No pun intended. Honestly!)…
06 Jun 2007, 21:36
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Ahh! You're right. It is Deities and Demigods, not the Monster Manual. I said that it had been years.... Thanks.…
05 Jun 2007, 22:32
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Although I haven't played in _years_, I still have the Monster Manual which includes creatures from Michael Moorcock's Elric/Immortal Champion series. I don't recall which editi…
05 Jun 2007, 21:58
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Interesting take on what's been said. I'm not sure why you interpret it that way, as I don't recall anyone saying that those who don't find Wolfe appealing were lazy or unwillin…
04 Jun 2007, 23:00
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According to the US Census Bureau, US book stores have about $16.5 billion in sales annually. Not all of that is books, however. Barnes and Noble, for instance, reports their s…
03 Jun 2007, 22:53
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Replying to my own post, but I recently ran across this blog which really brings home the point I was making. It's a blog, so take it with a grain of salt but there's a link to …
03 Jun 2007, 20:20
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Like you, I haven't found much literature on line that is worth digging into. What I have found, however, are odd little back alleys and side streets off the information superhi…
02 Jun 2007, 21:03
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Because that has nothing to do with it. The world today is very different from what it used to be. Publishing today is a business, and solely a business. Publishers publish boo…
02 Jun 2007, 01:11
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I didn't expect any sort of illumination. However, if I read that article and picked up the BOTNS expecting to read an uplifting story of redemption about a man who was raised a…
29 May 2007, 22:16
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Worthy? Really? While the only factual error I can point to is the one you pointed out - the conflation of the Concilliator with Christ - I can't imagine a much more misleading…
29 May 2007, 11:26
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To my mind, it only seems too coincidental if you assume that VRT intended to assume Marsch's identity from the beginning. If, however, you assume that Marsch died and VRT seize…
17 May 2007, 11:37
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I suppose that the next time I write something about Shakespeare, I'll have to insist that his works are NOT plays.…
16 Apr 2007, 22:20
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"Created in the context of..." What, precisely, does that mean? The only reason I can think of to make the claim that _Children_ is not fantasy is if one considers fantasy an in…
16 Apr 2007, 21:58
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That depends a great deal on precisely what you mean when you say "...a good film." I think most people would agree that TBOTNS wouldn't _translate_ well to film. It would be i…
10 Apr 2007, 11:55
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If anyone else is interested: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=377&item=280093906395…
18 Mar 2007, 20:41
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It still leaves the apparent contradiction between the statement that they know no breasts and the statement that they take the child from the womb and find a wet nurse. The onl…
31 Oct 2006, 18:02
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This doesn't follow at all. The quote is: "[ . . .] a breast running with warm milk. It was my mother's breast then, and I could hardly contain my elation (which might have wiped…
31 Oct 2006, 14:28
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The apprentices are raised in the tower and cared for by older apprentices and Guildmembers. I see no reason that this couldn't include infants as well, and no reason the childr…
30 Oct 2006, 19:38
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Chapter 2 of Shadow: "...when a woman big with child is sent to us we open her and if the babe draws breath engage a wet-nurse if it be a boy. The females are rendered to the w…
28 Oct 2006, 21:22
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I've gone back and reread your 18th post. Your arguments against Severian being born in the tower rests on the sentence "None of us were born among the torturers, for none are."…
28 Oct 2006, 12:54
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I think you're misinterpreting the sentence you quote. You've addressed the second half of the sentence but you haven't explained what the first half means. Why does the fact t…
27 Oct 2006, 19:30
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