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Let's look at the alternative scenario again. Urth gets colder and colder for thousands of years more. Millions die because can't find food, from exposure, or from warring over s…
07 Jun 2008, 13:30
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The teachings of the Conciliator didn't paint a rosy picture at all: Declan wished to know how Urth would fare when the New Sun came; and I, understanding little more than he did…
07 Jun 2008, 07:16
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I'm sorry I mentioned environmentalism -- I thought their term "anthropocentrism" shed an interesting light on the debate. My point remains whether you believe in environmentalis…
07 Jun 2008, 07:00
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* Both of these moral arguments are missing something, in my view. They are only concerned with what happens to the human race. Environmentalists call this anthropocentrism, and t…
05 Jun 2008, 19:03
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Sev was raised to kill without pity, so this is not surprising. Probably if he had not helped Voldalus that night he would have been mistaken for a grave robber and killed himsel…
05 Jun 2008, 12:03
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I don't think so. Unless he closed that loophole as part of the bargain, the King would be within his rights to leave Tim dying of old age at the end of his service. I noticed t…
05 Jun 2008, 05:12
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There in a line in Claw which helps clarify matters: "But I can remember more than many would credit: the position of each object on a table I walked past when I was a child, and …
04 Jun 2008, 11:02
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Perhaps I am making an unjustified assumption, but I thought it was a given that the copy made on the time-traveling Ship was the only copy that Wolfe could have obtained and "tr…
02 Jun 2008, 05:35
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Welcome, David. You can probably find many more detailed answers in the archives, but my take is that Number 5 has become just like his "father." Just as Maitre hoped to raise hi…
31 May 2008, 20:16
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StoneOx17 said: I think it's often said that the Fair Folk cannot enter a human dwelling without an invitation, so you could be right. I still have bit of a problem with Lissy d…
30 May 2008, 19:39
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So far, we've only talked about physical evidence for the Daniel/Lissy theory. If it's true, there should also be clues in the dialog that all is not well with the Tim/Lissy rela…
30 May 2008, 12:49
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For simplicity I'll assume that the clock was turned back to a single point in time. As you say, the evidence points to it being the morning after they built the driftwood fire o…
29 May 2008, 08:47
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Good clue-spotting. All right, let's pursue this. There are some other interesting details: 1) Lissy was awake and sitting up when Tim entered on the day of the damp towel. 2) Th…
28 May 2008, 19:44
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I think you are right. I prefer that ending, anyway. It would lessen the tragedy if Tim found out that Lissy was lying about never having met his father. The fairy King didn't re…
28 May 2008, 12:09
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I think the Joe at the end is a real person. At the point they find him sitting outside, Bonnie had not yet entered the Thing. Her unborn child was not involved, except to give h…
26 May 2008, 08:38
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Thanks. I'd love to discuss PEACE again.…
17 May 2008, 10:39
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Steven writes: For one thing, it gains an opportunity to use first person in just one place...…
17 May 2008, 05:31
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Roy C. Lackey writes: In my version, Nadan will have the same soul-shattering revelation, but it will be an epiphany of psychological horror. He will learn before he dies that t…
15 May 2008, 12:05
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I'm a computer programmer from Santa Fe, New Mexico in my early 50's who just recently got back into Wolfe books after a gap of many years. When I was cleaning out my old books i…
12 May 2008, 07:25
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Yes, there has to be evidence beyond the notebook that Nadan has gone to the Bay of Delaware. But if the ending of the journal account has been faked, then so could that evidence…
11 May 2008, 09:51
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Thanks for the encouragement, Matthew. Rereading with the forgery plot in mind, here are some new thoughts. 1) The woman who helped Nadan get the curator into bed supplied him wi…
09 May 2008, 18:19
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Peter <stoneox17 at aol.com> writes: Weer has a habit of referring to woman by their maiden names, if that's how he first knew them. For example, he refers to Mrs. Price as Miss …
29 Apr 2008, 05:39
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Yes, there's plenty of internal corroboration that the story was told at the birthday party. There's also a mention of Julius with a plate of crumbs from the birthday cake. I think…
27 Apr 2008, 02:37
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My impression was that Olivia didn't really want to buy it. She wanted to get Macafee to give it to her, but she was afraid that her November birthday would give him plenty of time…
26 Apr 2008, 04:44
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In my previous post on this topic I elaborated a theory that Eleanor Bold murdered Den Weer. Since then I have looked into more information about her and I think I'll have to mod…
25 Apr 2008, 06:49
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*Roy C. Lackey wrote:* These are Wolfe's characters, so they'll do as he thinks they will. But here we have Weer projecting his experience on Elliot; he could be right about himse…
24 Apr 2008, 04:14
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I'm still looking for out-of-place memories for my "one devil" theory, and I found another glaring example: the ladies' Indian Club meeting on Den's fifth birthday. It's describe…
23 Apr 2008, 04:46
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To press on the analogy, Clue players must visit specific rooms in a mansion in order to invoke memories to confirm or contradict their theories. They cannot access the central roo…
22 Apr 2008, 06:45
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I hope this works as a reply. I had to use a different email account but it's still me. I thought about that idea but decided against it. There is this exchange: I say, "Please, …
19 Apr 2008, 05:08
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