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The theory that Chris is his own father makes his existence a time paradox, and Wolfe never does this. He allows people's history and knowledge to be changed by accumulated loops,…
09 Nov 2012, 03:38
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Thanks for checking out my other commentary files on WolfeWiki. Yes, the one on Mucor as the dream doll is mine. I have read "Talk of Mandrakes" but I didn't think of the monster i…
03 Nov 2011, 19:31
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larry miller wrote The BOTSS novels show Silk using this ability quite a bit. I have a short article discussing that and other theories about the apparition on the Wolfe Wiki: ht…
01 Nov 2011, 17:50
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: Well, first of all, there seems to be a complete lack of wolves. Not a one, Chelle mentions that in the army they "ate like wolves and slept like babies…
03 Mar 2011, 00:42
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I recently tried to access www.wolfewiki.com and found the address broken. The old address, http: www.holkar.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Site.AllRecentChanges is still there. Does anyo…
17 Feb 2011, 17:48
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Actually, there's evidence for the continued celebration of Christmas, because Chelle says to Mitch, "I bet there's a company Christmas party." She's flirtatiously suggesting that …
03 Feb 2011, 01:10
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Darth Ed wrote: Of course not. This future society is fully secularized. Instead of getting married, Christmas as a secular holiday has a lot of momentum, since gift-giving is a …
03 Feb 2011, 01:00
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There is more evidence that fits my theory. Johnson says he held a job for "200 days or so, about half a year." That looks like either the old 365 or my 400, not 1000. They still u…
02 Feb 2011, 07:45
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Marc Aramini wrote: As far as Evil Guest goes, I believe it was Dave Tallman who made a lot of cogent comparisons between it and other literature, (my apologies if it was another …
01 Feb 2011, 02:16
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Mr. Thalassocrat wrote: Perhaps it's a separation-from-nature thing. Societies destroying themselves I found another clue -- Chelle's arrival day is specified as Day 180. This su…
31 Jan 2011, 00:19
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No, but there's a character called White. As Skip says, there's someone who "likes to play games with colors."…
28 Jan 2011, 03:15
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In "Home Fires" there is never a mention of months or month names. There are days, weeks, hundred-days, and years. What sort of calendar reform is this? Asimov proposed a uniform c…
26 Jan 2011, 16:55
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to kill Chelle? My theory is revenge. Rick may have been uploaded with a scan of Master Sergeant Mort Pununto, the spy Chelle killed. He was the best noncom she ever had. A good …
26 Jan 2011, 02:01
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I have just read "Home Fires" and I was wondering what others thought of it. Much is explained, but there are several points left as mysteries. One is the true relationship between…
25 Jan 2011, 21:26
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James Morier's Hajji Baba of Ispahan, The Adventures of Hajji Baba<http://hajji.netfirms.com/index.html>is a famous book that may be a source Wolfe drew on for ideas and character …
22 Oct 2010, 22:55
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22 Oct 2010, 18:14
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James Wynn wrote: I'm pretty sure that is not the only time the Rajan confuses Hy with Seawrack. I couldn't tell you exactly where. I thought there was a time where he talks about…
22 Oct 2010, 02:12
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David Stockhoff wrote: I'll bet there's been an episode where Homer had 2 heads, at least briefly. If not, it's about time! Yes, in "Treehouse of Horror II" Homer had Mr. Burn's…
08 Oct 2010, 13:56
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anthony davis wrote: I don't have any evidence at my disposal for or against the theory that the Mandragora in the Autarch's visiting room is a Severian clone/embryo but I wanted …
27 Sep 2010, 04:52
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Lee Berman wrote: Jeff, your argument below on the more modest, machine assisted abilities of I am not persuaded that the Mandragora has anything to do with Typhon. There are a c…
24 Sep 2010, 16:29
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About the apparition of "Patera Pike" -- 1) Pike was old when he died. RttW p. 40 says he was about eighty. 2) The apparition is called "the old auger," which happens to fit the fu…
15 Sep 2010, 01:49
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1) Silk mistakes his astral-travelling older self for Patera Pike. This was in bad light and just a glimpse of the lower part of his face. 2) Severian mistakes the astral-travelli…
14 Sep 2010, 02:46
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Roy C. Lackey wrote: When Silk was buried in that tunnel collapse and made his brief sojourn to Mainframe heaven, he saw his biological parents. The male bio parent had blue eyes,…
12 Sep 2010, 06:41
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Gerry Quin wrote: He grew up with the name Blood, and it's hard to see where else he couild have got it. Rose/Marble always calls him this, even in formal situations like introd…
08 Sep 2010, 14:02
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Blood is not a good example. We happen to know the exact circumstances of his naming, and Maytera Rose broke the regular convention by calling him "Bloody" after her difficult (per…
07 Sep 2010, 15:39
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I've been looking around in CofLS and EftLS and I have yet to find any reference to Hyacinth's weight being unusually low. I seem to have exhausted all the times Silk and Hy were t…
03 Sep 2010, 05:28
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David Stockhoff writes: Well done. Are there any characters named Spider? There is indeed. He's a spy-catcher for Potto and he has a big role in EftLS. He even has a guest/ghost…
03 Sep 2010, 04:57
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Roy C. Lackey wrote" If Tussah was a clone of Typhon, where did he get his penchant for viragos. Typhon's mistress, personified on the _Whorl_ as the computer entity Kypris is a v…
02 Sep 2010, 05:35
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Roy C. Lackey wrote: What does Chenille being the natural daughter of Tussah have to do with Silk's reflexes? Silk's biological father was the blue-eyed guy Silk saw in his vision…
01 Sep 2010, 07:17
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Roy C. Lackey wrote: What does Chenille being the natural daughter of Tussah have to do with Silk's reflexes? Silk's biological father was the blue-eyed guy Silk saw in his vision…
01 Sep 2010, 07:07
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No real change implies Severian failed at bringing the New Sun in the original BotNS and this was rewritten for UotNS? I think his success is foreshadowed and implied in the origin…
31 Aug 2010, 18:06
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This article on wikipedia got me thinking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrenka The warrior mermaid depicted on the Coat of Arms of Warsaw is called a "syrenka" (little mermaid in…
30 Aug 2010, 18:21
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If we establish yellow hair for Fava's soul-self, that opens the possibility of a different Fava/Silk connection. Silk has yellow hair, and that color seems to be fairly rare in Vi…
30 Aug 2010, 15:34
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James Wynn wrote: Oh no! In a Wolfe story I must insist that if a misidentification occurs, it is accurate in some way. Yes, there is the clone theory available. I used to like …
30 Aug 2010, 04:54
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Here are some quotes about the hair-color of the dream Fava. Descriptions of her hair color when she's not a dream projection are about her wig and don't count. IGJ p. 194: "The c…
29 Aug 2010, 15:59
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Yes, there may be other places, but given the way astral travel is portrayed I don't look for years-long roles (like the entire lifetime of Patera Pike during the time Silk knew hi…
29 Aug 2010, 14:10
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James Wynn wrote: I think that after the end of "Return To the Whorl", the Rajan went back to get Fava in dreamland where he left her when her body died. Then he takes her back …
29 Aug 2010, 03:54
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James Wynn wrote: Oh no! I'm quite certain Orpine herself is significant somehow. I believe she is Blood's daughter (thus a connection to Mucor), but I think there is more than …
29 Aug 2010, 01:29
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the dream Silk has at the beginning of "Lake of the Long Sun." In that one, Orpine has Mucor's face and she is "clawing" at the dagger in her side. And there too, Hyacinth sits b…
28 Aug 2010, 14:02
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James Wynn wrote: My jailers have not deigned to release me. Like the Student making Son, I must beg for more Time. I only hope that I am Able and not VRT. Does this mean we w…
28 Aug 2010, 05:19
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Mo Holkar wrote: Good stuff! Having watched closely as you gradually assembled the elements of the explanation, I moved from sceptical to pretty much convinced. Although I shoul…
26 Aug 2010, 14:13
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For what it's worth, my forgery explanation for "Seven American Nights" (as posted on the WolfeWiki) has won a "2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary" on the waggish blog. He found it…
25 Aug 2010, 22:07
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24 Aug 2010, 22:03
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James Wynn writes (about Hyacinth): I'll grant a name connection -- both hyacinth beans and fava beans are edible. Otherwise they don't seem to have much in common. Hyacinth -- r…
24 Aug 2010, 17:24
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Short Sun", I'm now quite confident that Hyacinth = Fava. I have never heard this particular character equation proposed before. What do you mean by it, and what evidence have yo…
24 Aug 2010, 05:24
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Jeff Wilson wrote: And there is her dark hair and light skin that Severian overtly finds attractive, and if the metal trim on her dress is zippers up the sides, that doesn't hur…
20 Aug 2010, 14:28
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James Wynn wrote: Thematically, this also makes sense because after the procession, the text says: "It is very late-three, my watch says." Three o'clock is the hour of Christ's …
20 Aug 2010, 01:40
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David Stockhoff wrote: I thought you said the party was to be "tomorrow" night. I haven't looked it up, but if that's the case, then today is the procession and tomorrow is Saturd…
19 Aug 2010, 04:05
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You can't have a Good Friday parade on Holy Saturday, I don't think. The party was on the evening of the day he saw the procession. (It's my theory, however, that nothing described…
18 Aug 2010, 13:53
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The encounter is described in UotNS, and it has a dramatic impact on Sev. She can't have just gone to the breezeway to get mentioned in Talos' play, at least not originally. A prop…
17 Aug 2010, 19:33
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