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Well, IIRC correctly, Aslan says to the Calorman "Any good deed done for Tash was actually done for me." I don't think this is far removed from "sacrifices made to Tash were actual…
19 May 2010, 21:19
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I made a mess of Paul's quote, let me try again: "Paul's opinion was that: "Idols are NOT truly divine and what is offered to them does not do any good.. But the gentiles sacrific…
19 May 2010, 20:45
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For pagans, the difference between divine and merely "higher" is probably splitting hairs. It is only an important difference for monotheists. Paul's opinion was that: "Idols are …
19 May 2010, 20:43
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Well, it's obvious I haven't re-read to page 74 yet. As page 270, why do you think the ring Bax showed Kate was the onyx and not the wedding band (which I had assumed on my first r…
22 Apr 2010, 22:07
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Yeah, but (assuming the apparition is a "ghost") that Ted didn't get it from the river battle does not preclude his appearance from having something to do with that battle. The clo…
22 Apr 2010, 18:57
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You mean when Bax met Lupine at the river, right? But there is another important river incident that occurred close to Ted's Apparition.The battle royale. In Letter 42, Doris writ…
22 Apr 2010, 15:02
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Well, at least stationary has a corner. A shirt doesn't work. But an envelope has a corner and one might put their initials in the return address.It would have to be a letter *he* …
21 Apr 2010, 19:02
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Not basing this on much, but perhaps the wet thing was wet because it came from the river. That assumes of course that Ted is really dead. J.…
21 Apr 2010, 18:55
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If Ted was there to protect anyone, surely it was to protect Bax. He had already protected him from Ieuan. J.…
21 Apr 2010, 13:37
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The labyrnthian Black House's reminded me of Weer's large, constantly growing house in Peace which had rooms Weer knew of but had trouble or even no idea how to find them. J.…
20 Apr 2010, 22:44
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Well, I *do* think that the Faeri stuff occurred, but (let's face it) if Bax is lying about Faeri then he's lying about having found their mom. But again, how does Mrs Murray come…
20 Apr 2010, 22:24
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The most obvious explanation is that it was a handkerchief into which Ted was crying. That explanation seems *too* obvious in light of that Doris would not name it, but a wolfskin …
20 Apr 2010, 21:48
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On my second read, I think Bax always intended to replace George from the start. Right from letter #2, he gives George precise directions to the house. I think that at that time, h…
20 Apr 2010, 15:27
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I just think the story is lame if the whole thing is a fabrication of Bax's, because --after all-- it already IS a fabrication by Wolfe. It would be like saying everything in the L…
17 Apr 2010, 23:42
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Hmm..good point. But I just don't see how we get Doris around to being Lupine. Granted, Lupine impersonating Doris twice is significant of something. But in each case, we have Dori…
16 Apr 2010, 18:51
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I lept to the conclusion that the letter to Shell was out of chronological order: that Bax wrote it after the event in the car. I intend to pay more attention this time around to w…
16 Apr 2010, 18:38
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Doesn't this work better if Doris body goes off and changes into Lupine, while it is her soul (Mary King) who holds Bax's hand? J.…
16 Apr 2010, 17:58
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Hmmm...Why do you assume a bad smell means a werewolf? I thought it was vampires that had a bad smell. But I never associated the false Doris with Nicholas until now. Incidentally,…
16 Apr 2010, 12:40
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Well, from the start I expected Doris to be more knowledgeable than she was letting on, but at every turn she seemed genuinely clueless about all things Faeri. I admit I'm troubled…
13 Apr 2010, 15:30
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\>> -Who is Mary King? She’s mentioned twice (letters 21 and 25). I'm going to try reading letter 21 as if it actually belongs after 25. There is a Mary King's Ghost Fest held i…
12 Apr 2010, 04:16
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I think I did. She didn't know that Ted was a sorcerer. She didn’t realize the significance of the ring or that Ted would return to claim it. She was under the influence of Bax's…
12 Apr 2010, 04:03
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Gwern said My working hypothesis is that the body Lupine was putting back together during the final battle was George's. Dave said: He might have already been a werewolf when h…
11 Apr 2010, 00:42
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Still, thinking about this. The house and property are not George's "blessing". Millie is, which George is unable to appreciate. And Bax impersonates George to get it. As for thei…
09 Apr 2010, 22:09
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For twins, that really wouldn't say anything unless one of them got his undergraduate degree 10 minutes before the other. It's just whichever was the better student.…
09 Apr 2010, 21:53
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They were twins. Fraternal. And when Esau came out first, Jacob was clutching his heel. But Jacob does imposture Esau to steal his blessing. (Oops I see Dan'l already noted this) …
09 Apr 2010, 21:50
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After considering this a bit, I think George must have known about their father before he left for Medicine Man. He comes into the reading of the will accusing Bax of attempting to…
09 Apr 2010, 19:43
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I thought it was Robert Borski who nailed this one first. J.…
09 Apr 2010, 19:20
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Fernando, adamantly denies he said this. It was someone else he was respond to. My mistake. Sorry.…
24 Mar 2010, 00:10
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Amazon messed up my shipping. The Sorcerer's House is supposedly sitting at my door right now. I'm almost done with Pirate Freedom. Haven't found a puzzle yet that isn't carefully…
23 Mar 2010, 22:16
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At a panel, Wolfe said that the covers on The Book of the New Sun got progressively worse with each cover as the expectations of the publisher increased. He said, no one expected m…
23 Mar 2010, 21:39
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When this happens to me, it is invariably that I have inadvertently sent the posting using the wrong email account. J.…
23 Mar 2010, 20:20
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The conversation between the boy and the monkey in The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun is bound to be appealing to children. Also the reaction of the other sailors to the monkey. …
23 Mar 2010, 18:07
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Andrew, Some recomendations based on lessons learned: 1) Don't spend a lot of money on the books initially. Kids are absolute terrors to books. If they like them, they will read …
23 Mar 2010, 16:33
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I miss being able to read to my kids. Fortunately I still have one daughter who is willing to read to ME on long drives. Let's see (for what it's worth)... Check out the Golden …
22 Mar 2010, 23:48
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This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head, so I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The Book of the New Sun in that on the first …
11 Mar 2010, 16:43
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That's something else I heard Wolfe say at a panel. He said that people at cons often gift him with books, but the truth is that as writer he really doesn't have time to read for p…
09 Mar 2010, 19:53
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Also, out of curiosity I downloaded Nightside of the Long Sun and had my suspicions confirmed. The text was merely OCR'd and never cleaned up. So these texts are of limited value e…
08 Mar 2010, 21:50
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It depends on where it is hosted, I suppose. That's the way it has always been with copyright laws, I think. Fortunately, I suspect the actual harm these publishers and authors is…
08 Mar 2010, 21:44
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There's one thing, unsaid, that I picked up emphatically from Wolfe's panels last September: He is extremely happy with AEG. Cassie is one of his favorite protagonists EVER and Rei…
05 Mar 2010, 21:26
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Well, I posted some before recently but.... 1. Plan to write no more than 10 minutes a day, at least at the beginning. If you do that, you will always talk about "the novel I am w…
05 Mar 2010, 21:00
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Well he was at Balticon last summer IIRC. Incidentally, I just found Cory Doctorow's post on "Gene Wolfe's Rules for Writers" http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/03/gene-wolfes-rule…
04 Mar 2010, 22:22
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Maybe it was a fluke. I just tried it.…
04 Mar 2010, 22:08
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I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. A few Wolfe panels are every bit as useful as (or more than) a semester long Creative Writing course. Wolfe's advice about being …
09 Feb 2010, 21:02
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Just got word that Gene will be at Comicpalooza in Houston 3/26-28. I'll be getting my copy signed there. J.…
04 Feb 2010, 19:13
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I couldn't tell you exactly where, but I'm pretty sure Latro is told that it was Demeter who struck him. J.…
28 Jan 2010, 22:32
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I just looked up the story. The serpent was the son of Ares. I guess that makes Latro the dragon. J.…
23 Jan 2010, 20:28
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I agree, but I think there is an Io connection (maybe lots for all I know). That fountain Latro comes to before they take him to Apollo's temple is connected to the story of Cadmu…
23 Jan 2010, 20:06
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Perhaps, but Latro gathers followers and admirers pretty quickly. We don't know how they met because Latro didn't write it down before he forgot the event. Well, I don't know if s…
22 Jan 2010, 22:09
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Interesting, that big about anamnesis. There were thriving Greek colonies on the Italian peninsula, which explains Latro’s knowledge of the language and aspects of Greek culture. I…
21 Jan 2010, 23:58
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I will be very surprised if you are wrong about Hyacinth. J.…
19 Jan 2010, 14:32
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