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Well, the fact that they knew Silk's body was soon to be available suggests they are there observing things. You make a good point though that the Neighbors can very well be acti…
09 Feb 2011, 15:44
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Is there any reference to the Neighbors having ships? If they have conventional spaceships, why did they have to wait for the Whorl to leave? u+16b9…
09 Feb 2011, 13:49
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http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/viron.htm…
08 Feb 2011, 19:47
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I don't see this as a problem at all. The many ways humanity is not an equal to the inhumi in intelligence. Within a few hours, Krait has "tamed" the resurrected HORN to the exte…
08 Feb 2011, 19:08
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This quote only says the Neighbors were infected humanity with inhumi. It doesn't say they brought them on the Whorl. That's one way they could have done it--if beings who can dr…
08 Feb 2011, 17:50
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I just remembered that it is difficult for Dahlia to be Teasel's mother because Mint encounters her (and an old man whom I presume to be Hammerstone) at the end of Exodus. That's…
08 Feb 2011, 07:46
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Oh no! I thought Cage's hobby of collecting wild mushrooms one of those well-known facts about him. Maybe not so much. Perhaps that's just one more piece of loose trivia in my at…
08 Feb 2011, 06:19
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Mr. Hamm, honestly, when I wrote that analogy, I KNEW it would pull you from the woodwork. And, yet, it fit. I listen to much of his stuff and say, "He seems to know what he's do…
07 Feb 2011, 23:23
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I'll accept your opinion of her novels. I really only know her from her short stories..genre and literary. I recognize her technical ability, but I consistently have walked away …
07 Feb 2011, 22:31
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"I never understood any kind of border patrol when it comes to music. ~ Bob Dylan…
07 Feb 2011, 17:41
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It's worth noting that as far back as the 1970s Wolfe said that the only significant market for Short Stories anymore was in the SF genre (you'd have to include Fantasy and Horro…
07 Feb 2011, 16:46
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It is easy to think of "demiurge" as meaning "half-creator" because we often use "demi" to mean "something less than" or as synonymous with "semi" or "hemi". But actually it mean…
03 Feb 2011, 20:45
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It is an error (within Augustinian theology) to think of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as though they were different persons comprising a single entity...like Potto, Lemur, and Lo…
03 Feb 2011, 15:26
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No. I don't this is probably the case. John 1 says: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was with God in the beginning. All thin…
03 Feb 2011, 03:35
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Abraham met with God and two angels who told him about the birth of Isaac and the destruction of Sodom. "Increate" means "not created". "Pancreator" means "creator of all". It s…
03 Feb 2011, 00:21
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Well, I agree. But it is certainly debatable and I was only offering an alternate purpose for humans engineering of the alzabo. I wanted to show that there more than two possibl…
31 Jan 2011, 01:53
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Why should I show anything? Does Severian's analysis of why Becan Alzabo fought not impress you at all? He describes an equal merging of the desires between Becan and the animal.…
30 Jan 2011, 20:20
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That's the thing about Severian, isn't it? As risk of evoking Dionysus and getting Lee all stirred up <wink>, he's just that sort of character. If sailors come up against him, th…
28 Jan 2011, 22:16
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Your perspective is on rails, I'm afraid. For you, nothing could be seen as Becan fighting alzabo instincts--even the alzabo fighting to save Becan's family after having recently…
28 Jan 2011, 21:48
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eh...okay. I still think its a bit selective to say "Becan only wants his family devoured because the animal is using the human personality as a tool" and then say "When the alza…
28 Jan 2011, 19:36
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By the way... There is an alternate universe where stories taking place on the High Seas are as popular as stories about boy wizards are in this one. In that universe, Wolfe is …
28 Jan 2011, 19:09
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Hmm...why so? I would have said that possession in the BotLS was the just the opposite. As Kypris Chenille described it, the mind invader can choose to fully take over or ride al…
28 Jan 2011, 18:04
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This is the same method used traditionally by vampires. Traditionally, they fed on family members. Also, hyenas were said to also use human voices to lure their victims. Also, th…
28 Jan 2011, 17:12
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No. Well, not directly. Wolfe is tilling in the same mythological soil as the Sun cycle. But by the same token he is tilling in the same soil as The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Pirat…
28 Jan 2011, 15:56
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My favorite collection. I particularly enjoyed the "The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun". Unfortunately, that story revealed that Wolfe is capable of major mistakes in literary …
26 Jan 2011, 21:16
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I thought he was referring to Silk with his cane and a lion's head. Still, it is not a given that the signage Wolfe used for New Sun/Urth Sun could not be used in a different man…
26 Jan 2011, 20:38
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There's Sorcerer's House, An Evil Guest and Pirate Freedom, as well. But, let's face it, Severian, Silk/the Rajan, Latro, and Able are probably easily in the top 5 of the vast's …
26 Jan 2011, 20:22
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Able is the same. He's is predestined --even over-determined-- to defeat all comers and to rise to the top of any environment in which he is placed. Yeah, I'd agree that that Cer…
26 Jan 2011, 17:43
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I understand. I didn't mean to denigrate by name. But gods=aliens is a hard parallel to miss. In the future, I'll refer to it as the Bermanian Theory. Yes! Exactly! Wolfe is cap…
25 Jan 2011, 22:42
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Sweet! As you probably know, Noctua is a merging of Ariadne and Aphrodite in the Theseus story. I'm uncomfortable with your Chariots of the Gods theory at a thematic level becau…
25 Jan 2011, 17:31
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Well, I think the term is ironic, but I get why you don't. Hmmm...what a nice obscure reference. I like it! u+16b9…
24 Jan 2011, 16:41
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Wolfe has said in an interview that the Ascian (as-kee-an) / Asian false association never occurred to him at the time of writing but acknowledged that it was a reasonable infere…
24 Jan 2011, 15:02
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As in North Korea? Do you really think we could have pulled off such a blockade during the Cold War with China and the Soviet Union right off of Japan's coast? I think the idea …
19 Jan 2011, 20:43
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If you have another option, go ahead and say so. Don't leave me hanging. Make your case.…
19 Jan 2011, 20:13
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Sure. But they wouldn't necessarily be the clues a particular reader would want. I consider it self-evident that Weer killed Lois and buried her in that pit they dug. I have alwa…
19 Jan 2011, 19:20
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"novelS"…
19 Jan 2011, 16:52
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Interesting. I've often used this very analogy to describe Wolfe's novel. I tell people, "If Wolfe had written MotOE, there would be no detective. That would be the reader's job.…
19 Jan 2011, 16:44
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Allow me to take the Devil's side for a bit. The Imperial Japanese culture in the early 1940s glorified nihilistic fanaticism. Long after it was clear that they would not win the…
19 Jan 2011, 16:37
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Okay. I see what you were attempting exemplify. Unfortunately (hence my confusion) I didn't do that. To the contrary. I was arguing against Roy's and Gerry's assertion that, occu…
19 Jan 2011, 16:08
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Why do you think the gods would have remarked on it at all? Why do you think, after their memory tinkering, that it is self-evident that Mamelta and Rigoglio would have recognize…
19 Jan 2011, 15:31
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Hmm...I confess I don't know exactly what his argument is now. I'll wait for him to elaborate when he corrects me. u+16b9…
19 Jan 2011, 14:45
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Tartaros' assertion requires serious finessing. One cannot possibly assume that Echidna and Scylla thought they looked like that. u+16b9…
19 Jan 2011, 14:15
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Are you looking for practical reasons? I'm not sure there are any. To some extent, they draw their appearance from monsters whose name they bear, but not especially. To a large ex…
19 Jan 2011, 13:41
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But they DID didn't they? You're quote here SAYS so. Man, we are not going to come to an agreement this. Of all the quotes to pull. As I read this post I thought, "Is Antonio ser…
19 Jan 2011, 13:20
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"Supplementing" It's like with Cilinia at the end. There was nothing left of her besides that little bit in Oreb. Not enough to ever return as a personality in the Mainframe. P…
19 Jan 2011, 04:05
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Definitely. Right now I'm imagining Wolfe with wide eyes and a finger to his puckered lips: "Oops! I was I unclear?"…
19 Jan 2011, 03:42
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How much of the text are you willing to ignore? I mean the part that Wolfe actually wrote. And why Silk? Out of everyone in the Whorl? Why not Auk? He's the prophet. Why not Hor…
19 Jan 2011, 03:01
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Well, I choose to ignore the text that Wolfe didn't write but you think he ought to have. u+16b9…
19 Jan 2011, 02:54
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??? Have you read The Book of the Short Sun? I'll ask again, do you think Mamelta was unique in not having her memory messed with? Why would she care? Silk was not Typhon. Why wo…
19 Jan 2011, 01:24
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Sure she does. So does Rigoglio. He's well aware that the gods walked among them as men. What of it? Do you really believe Mamelta was unique in not having her memory altered? Th…
19 Jan 2011, 00:25
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