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I'm actually writing an article about Ballad - and about Rice Boy - at the moment! So, I second that rec. (Rice Boy: http://riceboy.jho-tan.com/ - also recommended.) Those two I…
19 May 2008, 22:16
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Yes. Me, among others. Although I only post very rarely, and never, so far, anything particularly insightful. I've only read TBotNS once, in 2003, and feel it needs several readi…
16 May 2008, 20:40
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Isn't Delany bisexual, anyway? For a homosexual he certainly writes a lot about sex with women! (And about mixed threesomes.) I didn't get misogynist vibes from Dhalgren. But the…
22 Oct 2006, 16:58
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Actually, as a woman who has spent most of her life reading books written by men, from a male perspective, and hasn't found that perspective mind-bogglingly alien, I'd say the di…
19 Oct 2006, 19:42
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To weigh in as a female Wolfe fan for a moment, I seem to remember rather liking the female soldier in, is it the third or the fourth part of TBotNS? I forgot her name and don't …
19 Oct 2006, 13:34
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I am very amused by Wolfe explaining how Severian was mainly born from his desire to finally have a character of his that people could do at masquerades: "As I sat there being i…
07 Sep 2006, 18:59
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Wow... considering the book has been out of print for a decade or so here that's quite amazing. Will definitely check this out... Hmpf PS: The German translation of TBotNS is a …
25 Oct 2005, 20:33
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This reminds me why I really need to find another university. We don't get any sf related classes here, and sf really is the main thing I want to study. It's not a popular subjec…
21 Jun 2005, 11:14
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If you like Amano check out the movie 'Angel's Egg' he worked on with Mamoru Oshii. It's *very* Wolfean in regards to atmosphere, and even more incomprehensible than your average W…
17 Jun 2005, 02:22
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Nah. He did Elric, too, but Elric was usually clearly identified as Elric. (Actually he's apparently the official Michael Moorcock illustrator in Japan - I've done some research …
16 Jun 2005, 14:38
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IIRC, it's fairly light, for Commonwealth standards - I think that's one of the things that gets him being 'mistaken' for an exultant occasionally. Of course, to judge what 'ligh…
16 Jun 2005, 12:51
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http://www.elevenland.com/amano/view.php3?picName=The+Claw+of+the+Conciliator&picImage=pic16.JPG What do you think? It doesn't really *look* like anything I remember from the boo…
16 Jun 2005, 11:08
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The really weird thing is that I'm listening to that album *right* now. And yes, I started listening *before* I read this post. Been listening to it all afternoon. I was listenin…
26 Jan 2005, 12:34
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Nope. We like 'ch', in Germany. ;-) We also have 'Monarch' - as well as 'Monarchie', 'Hierarchie', etc. Interestingly, 'autark' does exist as a German word - but it's an adjectiv…
05 Dec 2004, 15:11
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AFAIK, a lictor was some kind of Roman official. Autarch, I think, may be Wolfe's creation, though. It's 'Autarch' in the German translation, too. Okay, and it definitely looks …
05 Dec 2004, 15:03
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I just thought of one thing that seems to indicate that 'Barbakane/barbican' may be more obscure in German than in English: the fact that my English-German dictionary (PONS Globa…
05 Dec 2004, 15:01
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Wow. Methinks I need a better dictionary! But, as I said, checking all kinds of dictionaries at the university library and the Deutsche Bibliothek will probably help a lot. For t…
05 Dec 2004, 14:43
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Okay... but my point kind of was - we don't have two different words for it in German. (Though of course I'll only know for sure when I've checked a specialised dictionary, I gue…
04 Dec 2004, 01:53
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AFAIK I don't need a permission to translate it for purely my own (and possibly, you're right, my mom's) use. I mean, I'm doing this purely for practice, really. Hmpf…
04 Dec 2004, 01:11
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Uhm... I dunno. Consulting a really good dictionary would be my first guess. Hey, I've only just started, and I'm not sure yet how serious I am. Thing is, I want to teach myself …
03 Dec 2004, 16:51
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Not very much, considering it doesn't exist, and probably never will. ;-) Yes, I know. It's even more expensive in Europe (over 300 euros). Hence my question. Any chance of a rep…
30 Nov 2004, 14:13
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