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Well, evil is never just evil in Wolfe Let's say they have a mutually controlling relationship. ;) They didn't actually say "header," did they?…
26 Oct 2011, 14:50
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I didn;t know Thecla is Achilles' mother---Mantis does not note it. But that does suggest a starting point to a thread of Illiad connections. However, I'd approach that by asking…
26 Oct 2011, 14:21
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Somewhat. But Sev does not seek vengeance on Hethor for killing his lover/friend. You'd think that would be the main reference point.…
26 Oct 2011, 14:08
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How does he slay Sev's alter ego? I don't recall Hether successfully killing anyone.…
26 Oct 2011, 13:53
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Certainly "Hector" should have significance, even if ironic. But what's a demonic magistrate? What of the other suggested names: Kimleesoong? Heston/Colonel George Taylor? I'm …
26 Oct 2011, 13:48
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Great name for a band!…
26 Oct 2011, 13:31
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What's to get? You just said it all. Or was that someone else? Mantis thinks Hethor is Kim Lee Soong.…
25 Oct 2011, 17:06
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Ah, OK.…
25 Oct 2011, 17:02
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I should note (if I didn't) that the Old Autarch would also know of Catherine's execution, assuming she was, as he would probably have been the one to judge her. I base this on h…
25 Oct 2011, 13:48
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A VERY old name. I wonder if some attributes are shared ....…
25 Oct 2011, 12:26
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All I can tell is that beheading was Katharine's sentence, not Catherine's.…
25 Oct 2011, 12:23
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There is a theory that the Other Lords tried to kill Dorcas, putting her in a coma at Ouen's birth. An intervention in the opposite direction makes sense as part of that theory. …
25 Oct 2011, 12:22
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Certainly the Pelerines are a good candidate to occupy the Red Tower. Everyone in the Citadel is a relic of a past age. I agree about adultery and strangulation by whatever means…
25 Oct 2011, 11:16
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Perhaps more "daemonic." IIRC, in Wizard Knight there is an intimation that beyond the lower circles lie the higher circles---that together they form a great circle. And so the …
25 Oct 2011, 02:52
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Why would the Pelerines have anything to do with the Atrium of Time? Catherine had escaped from them---not to them---so why would she go there afterward? What good is a secret t…
25 Oct 2011, 02:49
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I noticed the following line in Talos' play: FAMILIAR: The Contessa waits outside, and as she is of exalted blood, and a favorite of our sovereign's, I beg you see her first. En…
25 Oct 2011, 02:39
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Conversely, the Os spy on humans. Either they are traitors or they simply allow themselves to be ridden, or both. I'm guessing they can't just take over. Thanks to the pun you p…
25 Oct 2011, 00:30
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Whoa. nice! Well, since the future world is in part a fulfillment of paranoid fantasies .... Yeah, there's not much to go on. But I do think the color associations are key. As …
25 Oct 2011, 00:06
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One can imagine Dorcas and Casdoe being sisters even though their names don't quite match. Also, IIRC Fechin was known as a precocious talent. This doesn't mean he stayed one th…
24 Oct 2011, 22:22
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I didn't think he held that post for Tzadkiel. However, I wish we knew his old name. Gene, I bet. I wonder why all his ships were lost. How did he escape their fate?…
24 Oct 2011, 20:26
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I thought Inire's resume was quite different and went back 1000 years. So does Hethor's, I guess, with time dilation, but has he been adviser to Autarchs as well?…
24 Oct 2011, 19:48
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If anything, that suggests to me that Tzadkiel used to be Hethor.…
24 Oct 2011, 19:33
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By that very resume, yes, Hethor seems fairly ineffective to me, compared with Inire. Hethor is the very type of a sailor who'll take any job. However, you have a point about be…
24 Oct 2011, 19:31
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I'm not sure of the whole list of suspects, but I agree that that probably follows. Cas's husband, Fechin, Hethor.…
24 Oct 2011, 18:47
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Excellent point. I believe we can all agree on these facts.…
24 Oct 2011, 18:26
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Definitely. This technique was use by none other than Shakespeare. Pick up any play, pick a character, and start looking for a counterpart. He/she will be there somewhere, even i…
24 Oct 2011, 18:24
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It's true that Dorcas herself remembers sitting in a window. That's a nice connection. I wonder if Wolfe was in a deep Proustian false memory-trance during the whole writing of …
24 Oct 2011, 18:08
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None of this is meant to suggest that he is not. However, I don't think he is and have made several comments to that effect over a few days. Never mind that it would make Inire …
24 Oct 2011, 18:02
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Here's one: “I was a servant once . . . That is why they hate me” (IV, chap. 25, 176).…
24 Oct 2011, 18:00
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Here's a thought. Old Autarch + Inire vs Vodalus + Inire New Autarch + Inire vs Agia and Hethor (1) The Vodalarii no longer need Inire's personal attention now that Sev is here…
24 Oct 2011, 17:25
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Looking through the text, I just realized that one of the first things Sev does upon gaining the old Autarch's memories is to go question Ouen with very specific questions. So, …
24 Oct 2011, 17:21
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It seems to be from the story The Cat. Not BotNS.…
24 Oct 2011, 17:13
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Maxellindis's uncle says he sleeps in his boat. LU says Ca's husband sleeps in a rented room. So they are clearly different people. But old boatmen do seem to be a motif. For a …
24 Oct 2011, 16:30
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Lexicon Urthus says so, but I don't recall the revealing passage. Appian was apprentice to the honey steward Paeon. He ruled for a long time, being young, according to LU.…
24 Oct 2011, 16:09
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Aha. Very good. But that would make them Vodalarii. Thea is, but the rest?…
24 Oct 2011, 16:06
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I agree, except that to me the connection is mostly related to to what all these people do (witches, sorcerers, etc.). I think one can divide up characters' significance in only …
24 Oct 2011, 15:48
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Right. And class and the potential for inside intelligence might be part of the criteria. But he got Thecla, possible daughter of Catherine and Theo. Where was her family?…
24 Oct 2011, 15:22
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I have a hunch Vodalus picks his meals very carefully. His followers may not care so much.…
24 Oct 2011, 14:35
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The khaibits are clearly central to the first couple of books but introduce problems as well as solutions. Cyriaca's sentence is suggestive as well. But (1) Who cares whom a kha…
24 Oct 2011, 14:33
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I note from Lexicon Urthus that "Os" is a town along Gyoll. It means mouth, opening, source. The loa Legbo, who seems to ride Chelle's father as an Os, is a speaker/mouthpiece/g…
24 Oct 2011, 14:18
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Exactly. He and Baldanders did not always travel.…
24 Oct 2011, 02:04
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excellent! Before the creation there was "nothingness." Not nothing.…
23 Oct 2011, 20:12
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Well done. Of course "1 year and 106 days" is 471 days, or nearly 500. Consistent with a tour of 1-2 years.…
23 Oct 2011, 20:10
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I'm betting there were delivery vans full of books running back and forth all the time! Seriously, I think it's likely that we are to imagine Sev's book in Ultan's library---the…
23 Oct 2011, 19:55
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Because he dwells in the dark behind the sun, we can't see him with our eyes.…
23 Oct 2011, 19:05
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Perfect. How do we know the Neighbors got into the Whorl? Were we "told"? If not, then figuring out "how" is clearly part of figuring out "whether." Once you get down to "drillin…
23 Oct 2011, 14:42
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thanks! If the incest extends beyond Dorcas, which was an accidental instance, yes. I hadn't noted any disgust for Inire, but it's possible. So far so good. I can also imagine f…
23 Oct 2011, 13:56
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I think he can do both, and does. One simply can't depict a colorful, spectacular, empty religion without fingering any number of religions at their worst moments. Every religion…
23 Oct 2011, 01:54
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This makes a lot of sense, but it also strikes me as just too deep. Too religious; too revelatory; too steeped in "lore." I think with mythology one runs the risk of seeing patte…
23 Oct 2011, 01:49
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If I understand you correctly, you're saying that no author can critique (not "criticize") his religion. Note also that by "religion" I do not refer to anything other than that …
23 Oct 2011, 01:26
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