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Mantis ponders: So is there a level of prosthetic inclusion where the items are purely prosthetic (human level), and then a level beyond that where the prosthetics begin to influen…
25 Sep 2002, 15:25
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It's too complex to explain here, but for now I'll give the answer and toss out a few of the dots for you to connect. Marble lied about posing for the picture. It was Molybdenum w…
24 Sep 2002, 18:07
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Marc Arami suggested: ...or Pasicrates, who may see in Latro the ideal victim (and whose continued sexual exploitation may be the source of Latro's deep depression at the end of AR…
17 Sep 2002, 21:39
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--- Robert Borski <rborski at charter.net> wrote: ...Pasicrates, who may see in Latro the ideal victim (and whose continued sexual exploitation may be the source of Latro's deep depre…
17 Sep 2002, 16:09
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Nutria declares We can always fall back on thematic rather than literal associations. If the name Hyacinth is also a pointer to Apollo, this relationship stands without her having …
09 Sep 2002, 21:18
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Nutria (Coypu) quoted: "Watching carefully for her reaction, Silk said, 'I would have carried you, Maytera, if I could; but I knew you'd be too heavy for me to lift.'" (LS3, 4; p. …
09 Sep 2002, 15:16
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William Ansley said: I don't agree with you on the necessity of Hyacinth being a chem. In fact, we seem to be interpreting Wolfe's words so radically differently, I doubt we can ag…
09 Sep 2002, 14:29
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A response and a question..... Roy C. Lackey said: Then Lemur pitched a fit and fired the azoth. (LS2, 12) He didn't want to admit that he was a chem because he was aware of the p…
06 Sep 2002, 15:27
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Whipping that Dan'l Danehy-Oakes said: Meanwhile, back at the Whorl: one last question ... why, do you suppose, Wolfe chose to call them "chemical" persons instead of (say) "elect…
05 Sep 2002, 21:43
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Jerry Friedman says: By far the best clue I see that Hyacinth *could* be a chem is her name, as you pointed out. But I see nothing to contradict the obvious interpretation that sh…
31 Aug 2002, 18:22
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I intended to clip the following Boski question from my response since I answered it in my other recent posting. Failing to clip it makes it look like I'm being sarcastic when tha…
30 Aug 2002, 15:35
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After checking my sources, here's my response to Robert Borski's questions (thanks again Mr. Borski): Robert Borski said According to you she's a chem. So does this mean that she…
30 Aug 2002, 15:15
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Regarding essays at http://www.visualclick.com/~jwynn/GeneWolfe/LongSun/ Robert Borski said: I fear you've misread alga's comments, which were intended not as a suggestion that y…
29 Aug 2002, 23:05
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The nice comments I've received recently on my "articlettes" have surely turned my head. I do need to thank Blattid for correcting my grammar on the use of the word "inhuma". Havi…
28 Aug 2002, 13:52
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I've never met Robert Borski, although I enjoyed his recent Peace article. I haven't to my knowledge met anyone on this list, although it is my desire to go to WorldCon one day and…
28 Aug 2002, 13:31
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Ok. I think it is (to me) absolutely conclusive that Gene Wolfe took the word "Inhuma" from the Amazonian bird described in Peter Fleming's "Brazilian Adventure". In fact, I think …
21 Aug 2002, 22:11
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their lot. Of course I meant "does NOT change with whom they threw their lot" -- Crush…
02 Aug 2002, 15:49
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True. But they ARE in league with Erebus ("the darkness of Death" - that is the literal definition of the word). The fact that the New Sun eventually overcomes the darkness does ch…
02 Aug 2002, 15:08
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So it appears GW DID consider the Equator angle and used it as an excuse to give the Ascians their name (which has symbolic implications although not everyone agrees (with me ;-D) …
01 Aug 2002, 15:41
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That is an -excellent-- point! Except the title is not "The Shadow of **A** Torturer", it is "The Shadow of THE Torturer". Is it "The Sword of the Lictor" where Severian describes…
01 Aug 2002, 15:35
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IIRC In "Castle of the Otter" Wolfe says that a shadow implies the sun because the sun *stands behind* (as in, supports, affirms, etc) the one that casts a shadow. Also, that the "…
31 Jul 2002, 16:41
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"Another avern for you", said Agilus Hmmm. I thought they were "shadowless" because they were in continuous dark? Although, no doubt they interpreted it the other way. But the Asc…
30 Jul 2002, 18:45
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Hmmm... well if she's a former sailor, perhaps her sailing experience is not limited to the water. If she's been a crewman on a ship like Severian was on to retrieve the New Sun...…
29 Jul 2002, 14:37
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Phoebe Davis said: It certainly has mystical associations for the Carajas and some connection to the game or dance of capoeirado, although links are in Portugese or non-existant...…
23 Jul 2002, 19:31
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Joe Eull said: "Among the birds is the inhuma, which is: ...a gigantic and mysterious fowl, bigger than a cock capercailzie but built on more or less the same lines. These would ta…
22 Jul 2002, 17:54
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David A Baird said: ... the Hieros/Hierogrammates/Hierodules are creations from Urths past and now they want the new sun so that Urth can regain it's glory and then in turn recreat…
18 Jul 2002, 16:14
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David A Baird said: ... the Hieros/Hierogrammates/Hierodules are creations from Urths past and now they want the new sun so that Urth can regain it's glory and then in turn recre…
17 Jul 2002, 18:41
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I'm inclined toward short-timeline theories myself - simply because I don't think beyond a maximum of a million years in the future, the characters could credibly be considered hum…
17 Jul 2002, 15:52
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http://www.op.net/~pduggan/wolfestore.html Here's a nice listing of books in print. Incidentally, Mantis was surely too modest to mention that that fine publication Lexicon Urthus…
16 Jul 2002, 19:01
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or "not human". Or maybe just "foreign to the Commonwealth", like Loyal to the Group of Seventeen, and presumably Ash.<<<<<<< Crush clarifies his murky perspective: For purposes…
20 Jun 2002, 21:22
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Of course, if yours or this alternate nomenclature is a true Rosetta Stone, then Nessus should be an alien being.<<< I don't think I was clear in this paragraph that I was proposi…
20 Jun 2002, 14:24
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Even if your assignations are true, why is it a given that Typhon bears an *alien* name (presuming "alien" means a non-human species). Why could GW have not assigned mythological n…
19 Jun 2002, 21:54
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Tsk. Tsk. Blattid, Blattid, Blattid, I just cannot let this one pass. ;-) If I accept your argument, then G-d didn't destroy the earth with water the first time since Noah, his wi…
17 Jun 2002, 16:30
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The thought occurs to me that the Deluge of Ushas *could* be the Deluge of Noah - that the Story of Noah could be the a mythological telling of the Ushas Deluge...OR the Noah story…
17 Jun 2002, 14:39
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I think it's funny that someone would call quantum electrodynamics "straightforward". Clearly there should be a novel about wherever you work. ;-) - Crush -----Original Message-…
12 Jun 2002, 15:23
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I really would NOT place a lot of weight on this particular statement of Wolfe's in the quoted interview. It's just too difficult to reconcile the other clues. I think there is no …
12 Jun 2002, 13:56
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I agree. Actually, I think the operative sentence here is "Severian is a Christian rather than a Christ." Although, to me for some reason, saying Severian is a Christian is a more …
12 Jun 2002, 13:31
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Ah! Yes. Here's the quote: JJ: The holy slaves [Heirodules], Famulimus or one of them tells Severian that he is the center of his race, the savior of his race. That is such Christl…
11 Jun 2002, 19:24
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I seem to recall an expansion theory in which the universe eternally expands, collapses, and expands again in an unending cycle of big bangs and big gnabs. According to this theory…
11 Jun 2002, 14:54
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Hey, I'm also new. The Acian War *could* be thought of as a proxy war, but it could just as easily be viewed as a resistance war against an occupying force. If there is any correla…
07 Jun 2002, 18:21
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