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I think you may have missed the point, actually. To believe Wolfe places masks everywhere and to search every sentence for signs of these masks is, I believe, a fundamental misunde…
05 Jul 2010, 05:43
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I read it in the recent "The Best of Gene Wolfe" collection. http://www.amazon.com/Best-Gene-Wolfe-Definitive-Retrospective/dp/076532136X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277147539…
21 Jun 2010, 19:13
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"[Adrastos addresse the River Asopos, whose waters refresh the parched troops of the army of the Seven Against Thebes :] O thou, whom no suns are wont to tame, O horned one, so lav…
15 Jun 2010, 01:24
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I don't mean to pick on you, but I've always thought these types of statements were quite presumptive. Yours is a common argument to make against many ideas presented in science fi…
07 Jun 2010, 20:13
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Wasn't the Conciliator the Jesus-like figure? Severian seemed to me to be very much non-divine. Quite the opposite, he very specifically comes from a very dark place, and rises to …
03 Jun 2010, 01:00
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As someone who picked up his first Wolfe book a few years ago, I have a question: have there been any _confirmed_ errors in Wolfe books? I know that there was a typographical error…
30 Apr 2010, 22:37
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I think that's true, but I also think this is precisely the sort of thing that lends credence to the idea that Bax made everything up. There are an awful lot references to a variet…
23 Apr 2010, 20:29
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Or it could be a reference to Ted Griffin, who wrote the screenplay for Matchstick Men. ;) In all seriousness, it seems to me that Ted is short for Theodore. Some website I found …
21 Apr 2010, 04:30
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I noticed the same thing on my second read through, but also just reading Bax's syrupy writing with the idea that his aim is to replace George puts those early letters in a complet…
20 Apr 2010, 16:06
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Awesome. Totally on board with John's reply.…
19 Apr 2010, 15:42
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This is what I think, too. Craig, earlier you said it made sense for Wolfe to write a novel where the fantasy elements are fabrications. Similarly, maybe his objective is more nuan…
19 Apr 2010, 14:58
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Bax being well-read, I took it as Bax wanting to point out how horrible the dwarf was by comparing him to Quilp the horrible dwarf from _The Old Curiosity Shop_ via metaphor. To ba…
12 Apr 2010, 05:40
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