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Stephenson's book is full of SFnal references and jokes of varying quality: "They were a shade of brown that was darker than black" appears on P 530 of the Morrow hardback. David…
08 Dec 2005, 10:34
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I think he acts *exactly* as a knight "should" act in all these examples. That is, men who *openly* carry weapons push around the lower orders, and defend their honour to the death…
01 Dec 2005, 08:01
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It is possible that the carved brown face is made of wood -- the experience is pretty dreamy. David Duffy.…
03 Aug 2005, 20:58
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That's more like _Schizmatrix_, IIRC, where stars with interesting lives sell their blogs. Though turning to Wolfe, Number 5 may have spent his nights watching lots of old video o…
06 Jul 2005, 14:11
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You *have* to read at least one of his novels. _Brokedown Palace_ is pretty indirect. It might be the closest to say _Short Sun_. Brust channels Dumas very well too -- I was rea…
08 Jun 2005, 01:04
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Paul Park's _Starbridge Chronicles_ have been compared to Wolfe in the past, esp for the use of language -- you are halfway through _The Soldiers of Paradise_ (vol 1 of the trilogy…
16 May 2005, 15:52
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Well, the Dryden quote was included in the 1913 Merriam Webster dictionary definition (but I don't know if that is true of the OED or SOD, which I believe is Wolfe's preference -- …
12 Apr 2005, 16:51
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In _Soldier_, Short Sun and Wizard-Knight, Wolfe spends a bit of time on judgement by humans of gods. The Giants-proper (not the little ones ;)) are of Skai, and as such should …
07 Apr 2005, 23:59
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I've just been rereading Delany's _Empire Star_ (1966), and was struck by certain resonances with tBotNS I suppose SPOILERS AHOY a) the heroine is …
06 Apr 2005, 21:33
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A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. --Dryden. | David Duffy (MBBS PhD) ,-_|\ | emai…
03 Apr 2005, 21:20
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Much discussion here about appropriateness of higher authorities flooding the whole world for 40 days and killing everyone save a small band of survivors. I suspect this has been …
29 Mar 2005, 19:52
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Which can come back around to Wolfe, the Divine Right of rulers, and the natural hierarchy of authority, and the lawfulness of revolution. The Autarch is exactly in the mould of H…
21 Mar 2005, 17:58
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In that case, you would see it as _Peace_, but with a happy ending ;) A few bits and pieces which I have had trouble sending at the time: Surely Set is correct: Osiris-Isis-Set …
28 Feb 2005, 15:46
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I am irresistibly reminded of Luther explaining how dogs also go to heaven: "Be comforted, little dog, thou too in the Resurrection shalt have a tail of gold." ;)…
03 Nov 2004, 15:27
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I have to add the coda to a Watson bibliography I checked: Visitors to this page also looked at these authors Roger Zelazny Karl Edward Wagn…
20 Apr 2003, 04:55
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Of course, he could have just meant a headache ;) or depression. Googling gave: http://www.angelfire.com/ri/tucker/gender/eunuchs/terms.html The method of striking or crushing…
22 Jan 2003, 01:14
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Three points: instead of CMF, how about TSF (theological speculative fiction) WRT the end of _TAD_, Horn in _OBW_ muses that if he returned to life with Nettle on The Lizard, one…
21 Jan 2003, 03:01
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Not having read TAD, are we perhaps talking lunar months here?…
20 Jan 2003, 02:09
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Has anyone mentioned this is a response/riposte to Orwell and Nuspeak? | David Duffy (MBBS PhD) ,-_|\ | email: davidD at qimr.edu.au ph: INT+…
11 Jun 2002, 02:25
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alga said: and Rostrum said: We were told that the Neighbours carried inhumi to the Whorl, possibly deliberately, which doesn't seem like a very angelic thing to do ;). Perhaps Q…
24 May 2002, 03:26
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These are all shadings that merely reflect the sophistication of the writer and timing of how the stories were written. Take _The Sound and the Fury_: if the different parts had b…
20 May 2002, 00:49
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Having reread 5HC after reading all your insightful comments: VRT's father is deft enough to have made the arrowheads [viz Peace BTW], but says his son could not have knapped them…
30 Apr 2002, 06:07
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From urth at urth.net Fri Feb 15 17:09:21 2002 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:04:25 +1000 (EST) From: urth at urth.net To: Digest_Members at mailhub1.uq.edu.au Subject: Digest from urth at urth.ne…
15 Feb 2002, 07:15
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Apropos Aegypt-iv At the Xmas party, Pierce meets a strange man who seems upset with the way things are going in _Daemonomania_. | David Duffy. …
01 Feb 2002, 05:44
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I see the history of New Viron, incl Horn & Nettle's failure as farmers, and the rise of slavery, as an attack on certain libertarian fantasies that all will be well living the aut…
05 Jan 2002, 12:32
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I think _Peace_ is definitely _modern_ in that sense. The logic, such as in the example above, is dream logic, and the modernists were all influenced by psychoanalysis. "Who know…
08 Dec 2000, 00:12
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Horn says a tall man with a big nose or a spider: therefore that dream was a favour from a good neighbour. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
22 Jun 2000, 23:24
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Talking about Dunsany reminded me of the fate of one of the characters in _The curse of the wise woman_, who may get the choice (he chooses the downward path) of dying and going to…
04 May 2000, 00:25
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I seem to remember this is one of the stories in the Decameron.…
26 Jul 1999, 00:33
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My Shorter Oxford has apheta as "M 17 Gk starter or sender off = HYLEG hyleg E 17 Pers celestial indicator of the length of a newborn child's life. Astrol. The giver of life in …
14 Oct 1998, 12:34
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I originally thought the story must take place on Halloween, but it is most likely to be Samhain (7th November), the New Year and start of Winter or Geimhreadh (Gaelic). I suspec…
10 Aug 1998, 11:04
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In _Urth_ Severian is told that the events he thinks are results of the power of the Claw are in fact his own work - especially raising of the dead. That being the case, his mispe…
24 Jun 1994, 06:08
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