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Hey Don, With the recent discussion on a Vironese name for Zx, it occurs to me that a good one for you might be Lycaon from the African hunting "dog." If you've read the Soldier bo…
16 Dec 2002, 16:26
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Personally, I always preferred the original Amerind name, "musquash". -----Original Message----- From: jismulkstis at att.net [mailto:jismulkstis at att.net] Sent: Thursday, December 12…
12 Dec 2002, 15:51
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Actually IMDB **will** search for characters (just enter Philip Marlowe and you'll see it is true). It appears no movie (listed there) used the character or at least the name "Lind…
11 Dec 2002, 19:48
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Crush offers: I second William's optimism and if you want a Vironese nickname I can also suggest that you merely shorten your last name to Zibeth or even Zibet which are other nam…
11 Dec 2002, 17:33
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Roy said: Marble was captured and placed aboard the airship, along with Silk. She never saw Hammerstone after that, because she went on the lander to Blue. She didn't communicate w…
04 Dec 2002, 19:51
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Crush originally wrote Matthew Malthouse queried: Ummmm...... And the quotes that establish this are? Crush responds: Sorry, I keep assuming everyone knows more about this s…
03 Dec 2002, 19:45
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Roy responded: I probably shouldn't even ask, but **where, in or out of the whorl, did you get such an idea???** Crush answers: LS4:16 Maytera Mint talks to Marble in the ruins of…
03 Dec 2002, 16:34
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Look what you've done! I had resigned myself to let this go, and now you've stirred me up again. I'll take this out of order with part of your theory that drives craziest: Roy sai…
02 Dec 2002, 20:51
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Nice caluculations Mantis, however if one insists that Silk's Time coexists with Severian's Time then these numbers won't do. Wolfe puts Severian's time 1000 to 2000 years after Ty…
02 Dec 2002, 20:19
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Blattid said: While I have no idea whether Crush knows this or not, Gene Wolfe holds the same hypothesis... Gene Wolfe answered a passel of questions from this list... Crush writ…
02 Dec 2002, 18:21
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Ok, Roy, I think I got it now. Your contention is that Silk was so clueless that he wasn't aware that prosthetics were available even though there was a sibyl (just across the cour…
02 Dec 2002, 15:10
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Charles brings the tablets from the mountain: Question: In the Long Sun books, is Quetzal the only one of his kind on the Whorl? Was he an original passenger or a late a…
27 Nov 2002, 20:00
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But in your verbose post, somehow you never addressed the fact that Silk says bio prosthetic technology was not available to Rose and Marble (LS3:1). I realize there is a reason yo…
27 Nov 2002, 15:31
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Some nice catches in your last post. Thanks. But in your verbose post, somehow you never addressed the fact that Silk says bio prosthetic technology was not available to Rose and …
27 Nov 2002, 15:21
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Roy said: Now that you've acknowledged that you "don't believe any chem had hands like that", that plays hell with your theory that they originally came from a dismantled chem. Eit…
26 Nov 2002, 21:42
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Charles Reed inquires: I just can't see any textual support (which again is not the same as the lack of refutation) for the idea that any inhumi ever visited Urth. Is there any? …
25 Nov 2002, 17:39
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Roy asked: Which passage? I gave textual citations for each passage I quoted in these "Marble" posts. Crush responds: Perhaps I'm missing it -- the quote was: "And, just to head o…
25 Nov 2002, 16:13
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Very nice find, Don! Particularly (as one would suppose my reaction) the link on Dyaus-Nahusha. Personally, I would never have imagined a linkage between Quetzalcoatl's little raft…
25 Nov 2002, 15:53
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Well, for the Soldier books the entire Greek pantheon is of questionable identity. Demeter/Earth Goddess and Kore/Artemis are ostensibly at odds yet their orders to Latro are not n…
22 Nov 2002, 23:36
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Roy asserts: The hand was custom made to look like that of an old woman, in anticipation of the need; she couldn't afford to get new hands for every stage of aging: Crush responds…
22 Nov 2002, 18:09
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And, just to head off Crush, those hands Marble took from Rose *never* belonged to any hypothetical martyred chem maid. Chem maids were made to look like young female bios. The pro…
21 Nov 2002, 15:39
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Jerry Friedman (J.F.) persists: I think [Crush's explanation] was [misleading]. I had the impression that people who didn't know physics were gathering that FTL means time going b…
20 Nov 2002, 20:56
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Crush said: ...unless a majority of the people on this have a B.A. in Physics Crush reconsiders: A *B.A.* in Physics is what I might have but, of course, most people get a B.S.…
20 Nov 2002, 15:15
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Don asked: Please explain. Is this the usual SF take on FTL or is there a physics explanation that makes backward time travel the most likely? I'm pretty ignorant on this. Crush…
20 Nov 2002, 00:14
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Charles proffers: But consider another interpretation: the inhumi (before the Whorl came) can be seen as the "rabbits in the garden" -- i.e., the stupid, mindless beasts that they…
19 Nov 2002, 18:52
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Charles Reed quotes: Here are Gene Wolfe's own words, which you can find in volume 6 of the Whorl archives: "Typhon did not know about the inhumi [and] would have done everything …
19 Nov 2002, 17:05
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Roy ponders: 1) How could an inhumi have attained [the position of Prolocutor]? 2) Who was Quetzal's mama? Crush offers: 1) It is extremely unlikely that Quetzal could have attai…
19 Nov 2002, 15:27
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Nicely done, but place our explanations side by side and I think you can see why I explained it the way I did <g>. -- Crush -----Original Message----- From: Andy Robertson [mailt…
18 Nov 2002, 20:10
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Don posits: The Whorl left from Urth in the Age of the Monarch and the only way it could end up in the time of Ushas is for it to travel faster than light. The argument is that th…
15 Nov 2002, 16:19
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Josh Geller notes: There's a green guy who is important in Islam also. And there's the one that's associated with peyote. Maybe they're not all the same green guy. It's interesting…
13 Nov 2002, 19:21
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Oops! I meant "was of Quetzal's design". Perhaps I need to be more clear. I never presumed Quetzal showed up at Typhon's door with a bag of trinkets like a serpentine Santa Claus.…
11 Nov 2002, 20:04
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Roy wrote: Uh, Quetzal was an inhumi. The inhumi have no technology. None at all. They are not good with their hands--probably because they don't have any in their natural state. <…
11 Nov 2002, 14:24
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Roy said If I may push the Biblical analogy further; Typhon, in the NS, seems to me as the God of the Old Testament, while Pas, in the LS, is more like the God of the New Testament…
05 Nov 2002, 23:23
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Roy said Interesting slip you made there; I wonder if alga appreciates it? <g> Oops! My apologies to Alga. I hope if she gives a hoot one way or the other, she appreciates it. …
01 Nov 2002, 18:56
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mantis asked Now Crush, what trace, however obscure, led you here [to Edogawa Ranpo]? Crush responds This is the sort of libertine association that wedges itself so firmly in the …
01 Nov 2002, 16:32
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Adam said We aren't told whether the Outsider created the universe actively a la Genesis, or whether it "emanated" from him Gnostic-style. Crush interjects Well, we do know that i…
01 Nov 2002, 16:24
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mantis asked Now Crush, what trace, however obscure, led you here [to Edogawa Ranpo]? Crush responds This is the sort of libertine association that wedges itself so firmly in the …
01 Nov 2002, 16:18
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First of all, thanks for the recommended readings on Gnosticism. Tom said: Given the article's (necessary) paucity of details concerning the various Gnostic doctrines, Wolfe certa…
28 Oct 2002, 16:59
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Roy sneered: I must be getting senile, because I just re-read the LS series this autumn and completely missed those two "facts". Could you tell me where in the texts they might be …
28 Oct 2002, 16:38
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Adam Stephanides said: Perhaps I'm being dense, and it's been several years since I last read TBOTLS; but I don't see any particular connection between the Long Sun books and Gnost…
25 Oct 2002, 16:12
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Roy stickles: The cat on the handle is an ordinary cat.... ...It's on the page before that "friend" quote. (279, paper) "He'd got it specially made for me, or anyhow the picture p…
25 Oct 2002, 14:39
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Roy triumphed: I found the definitive answer, and the friend _is_ Auk. It's in chapter 5 of LAKE (111, paper), right after Auk met Silk and Chenille in the arbor at Sun Street: "A…
24 Oct 2002, 21:46
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Roy helpfully assists: Joe gave the correct answer for the first question...For the second question: I have the paperback, and re-read from when Silk first met Chenille to the quot…
24 Oct 2002, 18:57
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I haven't read Peace but I'll offer that in alchemy, the "egg" is associated with the coffin. -- Tuppence tossing Crush -----Original Message----- From: Michael Andre-Driussi [mai…
22 Oct 2002, 19:08
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First Roy drew a rather oppugnant comparison between the Lord's participation in events of the Fall of Man and those of Pas in the Whorl, then Patera Nutria (Coypu) opined: Now, th…
09 Oct 2002, 21:33
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Crush wrote: Yes, so it does. Now the question is, who wrote the list of characters and places? Was it Wolfe? He's never added any such list to his books in the past. Crush respon…
08 Oct 2002, 14:38
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Roy asked: I meant to say something about that parenthetical bit above the last time you brought it up. Where is the evidence that Chenille is "genetically engineered"? The list of…
08 Oct 2002, 14:28
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Regarding Alga's background on the Tin Woodman: Ok. Now I have brand new interest in the sequels to "The Wizard of Oz", but I still don't see more than a superficial connection to…
26 Sep 2002, 18:43
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Jerry Friedman wrote: Can we imagine a prosthetic-bearing bio in love with a chem wanting to become fully a chem? Response: It is not a two-way street. It is the most natural of i…
25 Sep 2002, 22:03
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Matthew Weber taunts: Wouldn't Jonas be a case of exactly that? Crush goes for the bait: Yep. He would, among others.…
25 Sep 2002, 15:39
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